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The Politics and Business of Self-Interest from Tocqueville to Trump

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Self-interest, when narrowly formulated, leads to counterproductive behavior in multiple domains that include driving, business, personal relationships, and politics. This chapter briefly lays out my claim and offers key examples in these several domains. It concludes with an overview of the remaining chapters of the book.

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Lebow, R.N. (2018). Introduction. In: The Politics and Business of Self-Interest from Tocqueville to Trump. International Political Theory. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68569-4_1

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