interestedness

IPA: ˈɪntrɪstɪdnʌs

Examples of "interestedness" in Sentences

Obama criticized the "reckless speculation and deceptive practices and short-sightedness and self-interestedness from a few."
The anomaly, then—as Weber recognized—is the self-interestedness of the economy, not the anti-selfishness of the other spheres of society.
The naked self-interestedness of his switch from the Republican Party to the Democratic last year has been laid bare by President Obama's nomination of Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court.
*If* the preconditions of their theories (such as instrumental rationality and self-interestedness), which economists wrongly treat as "laws," were to hold true in a given time and place, wouldn't it be nice to have constitutional rules in place that (somehow) barred minimum-wage laws in that time and place?
Any familiarity with the actual run of politicians, voters (who tend to vote sociotropically, not selfishly), legislative aides, judges, and bureaucrats would confirm that self-interestedness is a minor problem, and that corruption (in a First-World country where norms of public service have taken root) is rare.