Word: self-interest
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...enough to keep pace with Clinton and Obama, it would easily be enough to make the Libertarian candidate a household name. Part of the problem with building up confidence in third parties is that the two major parties have a stranglehold on the media, and it is in their self-interest to advance the view that third parties are not worth a rational person’s time. Leading up to the 2000 election, Democrats chanted to would-be Green Party supporters the refrain that a vote for Ralph Nader was a vote for Bush. Losing the White House ingrained...
This explanation of infatuation was devised by the economist Robert Frank on the basis of the work of Nobel laureate Thomas Schelling. Social life is a series of promises, threats and bargains; in those games it sometimes pays to sacrifice your self-interest and control. An eco-protester who handcuffs himself to a tree guarantees that his threat to impede the logger is credible. The prospective home buyer who makes an unrecoverable deposit guarantees that her promise to buy the house is credible. And suitors who are uncontrollably smitten are in effect guaranteeing that their pledge of love is credible...
...almost every case, Foreman says, his monkeys act out of self-interest, with no consideration of rewards (in the form of Froot Loops) to other monkeys...
...They distrust the governor, and for good reason. The press prints him as the flip-flopping Mormon from Massachusetts. Pundits deem his political discipline robotic: he’s incapable of emotion, they warn, and driven by self-interest. When Romney has shown otherwise, he’s pulled a fast one on us—ever the salesman, always shifting his stances...
...morticians are already poking at the carcass of Harvard’s political firmament, recently pronounced dead by a council of alumni of the Class of 1967. The coronary report seems to indicate a deadly tonic of apathy, greed, self-interest, and postmodern irony. But perhaps the biggest threat to Harvard’s political vibrancy isn’t lurking in the hallways of Bain Capital Group or in the sinister transmissions of Stephen Colbert. Perhaps the cause of death was not murder, but suicide. The guilty party? A group nominally committed to “engaging young people...