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He violently denounced their callous and self-interested behaviour.
Good behaviour may spring from other self-interested motives.
I don't care if he's doing it out of the goodness of his heart, or if he's totally self-interested.
Because of this strategic time-inconsistency, rational, self-interested agents are unlikely to profit from mutually advantageous bargains.
Empirical reports on scientific competition show that scientists can be depicted as self-interested, strategically behaving agents.
Such tendencies can lead to myopically self-interested political interventions into policymaking and public administration, with economically damaging consequences.
Multinational companies have always been regarded as self-interested superpowers that profit by exploiting the resources of developing countries.
Analytical models of self-interested producers, welfare maximizers, and mixed economic and administrative instruments are presented.
Uncertain rewards, self-interested agents and a potential lack of trust while coordinating add further obstacles to the process.
Perhaps we might best call such failures to be perfectly good ' reasonably self-interested ' or ' expedient ' failures.
This brings us to the central question motivating the present study: why self-interested politicians would ever voluntarily limit their own power?
However, if the offeree is rational, and believed that the offeror is rational and self-interested, the offeror is unlikely to benefit from such arrangements.
Such altruism does not necessarily preclude a preoccupation with self-interested internal occupational stratification, but there is little evidence that this was a significant motive.
Using cooperative agents in a self-interested negotiation context results in absurd behavior of the agents.
On a traditional interpretation of that framework, characterized by instrumentalist, self-interested voting, the arguments for representation are typically weak and second-best in nature.
And they miss the point precisely because of the assumption of instrumental, self-interested voters.
His words and deeds defined the bad citizen inversely : one who succumbed to self-interested ambition and subordinated the public good to the personal.
He presents a technique where clans are formed as part of a self-interested activity to increase local utility or decrease the probability of failure.
