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Richard M. Salsman on Caricatures of Self-Interest
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Richard M. Salsman on Caricatures of Self-Interest

Rethinking Self-Interest: Debunking Misconceptions in Economics and Politics

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Craig Biddle
Jul 16, 2016
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Given the importance of helping people to understand the nature and virtue of self-interest, and given the extent to which this concept is misunderstood and maligned in academia and in the culture at large, Richard Salsman’s recent essay “Common Caricatures of Self-Interest and Their Common Source” is a superb addition to the corpus of material on ratio…

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