But what they see is small mindedness and the pursuit of narrow self interest.

It should take precedence over narrow self interest or the potential profit opportunities associated with exploiting an informational advantage.

It will also require a commitment to the collective will and a retreat from preoccupation with self interest and narrow national agendas.

This may serve Germany s narrow self interest, but it will create a very different Europe from the open society that fired people s imagination and propelled European integration for decades.

The concept of homo economicus, which asserts that humans are rational actors who make decisions based on narrow self interest, has dominated political and economic thinking since the 1970 s.

Such a decision will also serve to convince critics of the Organization that the Member States can rise above narrow self interest and embrace the larger interests of the international community.

But so can enlightened self interest.

Not surprisingly, the political elite became self absorbed and served only its own narrow interests.

This is in their long term self interest.

Today, they receive the sharper impulse of self interest.

Efforts to narrow the gap between rural and urban development and proposals concerning self employment were also frequently cited.

This closer embrace of Cuba mixes self interest with calculation.

Naked self interest should persuade the advanced countries as well.

The self interest in upholding them together is also clear.

So you're building on something that is not pure self interest.

Ideas matter, as much or perhaps even more than self interest.

We should seek China s integration as a matter of self interest.

What Thaksin did for the poor required only political self interest.

This is a matter of morality, security and enlightened self interest.

Ms. Wedgwood said that the State party's narrow interpretation of the rights under article 27 of the Covenant was self defeating.

To add insult to injury, self interest has been portrayed as altruism.

International cooperation is in our self interest and needs to be mustered.

In addition, to narrow the competitiveness gap, all members should be able to refinance their existing debt at the same interest rate.

Yet they share a root cause, whereby speculative and often narrow interests have superseded the common interest, common responsibilities, and common sense.

Our perceptions of self interest are always filtered through the lens of ideas.

Buchanan concluded that politicians pursuit of self interest inevitably leads to poor outcomes.

By adopting a narrow definition of decolonization, the draft resolution failed to take into account the complex reality of Non Self Governing Territories.

The moral society, based on decent self interest, that Thatcher hoped to establish became the greedy society, based on coarse self regard.

Fundamentalists believe that markets tend towards equilibrium and the common interest is best served by allowing participants to pursue their self interest.

A crucial general principle in this respect is the principle on self interest threat a self interest threat occurs when a director could benefit from a financial or other interest in the enterprise as a result of unethical behavior or lack of independence (FEE, 2003b).

Thus, Americans pursued their self interest, but in a way that was rightly understood.

Opponents of nuclear power have suggested that self interest has compromised the Chernobyl Forum s integrity.

Bankers can be expected to act in their self interest on the basis of incentives.

It would also appear as though our endeavours to adopt a programme of work whether it relates to prevention of an arms race in outer space, nuclear disarmament, a ban on fissile material and or other issues   have already been thwarted by a lack of political will and narrow self interest.

Obviously, private firms are motivated by self interest, and that is not necessarily a bad thing.

Strong economic and ethnic pressure groups fight for their self interested definitions of the national interest.

But there is more reshaping to come, again fostered by mutual self interest, rather than by fiat.

Any effective response, therefore, must be grounded in a sense of global solidarity and enlightened self interest.

Among the French of 1835, however, the doctrine of self interest had produced egotism no less blind.

But real parallel progress, driven by necessity and self interest, is becoming the most likely medium term path.

If this call to national duty is not enough, we would remind you of your own self interest.

In Greenspan s words, the self interest of lending institutions would protect shareholders and the economy from lending excess.

As stability in the Middle East is essential to them, this is a matter of enlightened self interest.

Of course, the NPT does not rest solely on moral arguments, but primarily on self interest and prudence.

It is in the enlightened self interest of us all not to give in to the temptations of protectionism.