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Self-Interest, Markets, and the Four Problems of Economic Life

by Daniel Rush Finn, Clemens Lecture Series 3, 1989

Introduction

During the 1980s, we have seen a rise in the public respectability of self-interest. One indication of this is the birth of a minor industry designed to help corporations to spend their philanthropic dollars with a clearer view to their own self-interest. As redundant as such an effort may seem to the outsider, many in the United States have felt a newly-robust dignity in asserting self-interest where there may have been at least a tinge of peccability just a decade or two ago.

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