One might say that this is due to economic self-interest.
Americans have shown they want this country to stand for more than short-term political and economic self-interest.
This is a land ethic based wholly upon economic self-interest.
Utility is often narrowly defined in terms of people's economic self-interest.
Welfare recipients are no different from anyone else: they act in their own economic self-interest.
We are living in a curious time, when even economic self-interest provides no motivation, don't you think?
But there's much more at stake here than our economic self-interest.
At worst, he is trying to protect his own economic self-interests.
For Williams, the economic self-interests of the strong usually determine history.
But the new union drive has as much to do with economic self-interest as social justice.