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diff --git a/talermerchantdemos/blog/articles/en/self-interest.html b/talermerchantdemos/blog/articles/en/self-interest.html index 9455325..ca24bfa 100644 --- a/talermerchantdemos/blog/articles/en/self-interest.html +++ b/talermerchantdemos/blog/articles/en/self-interest.html @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ written to correct a number of misunderstandings of Smith's teachings, we find the following summaries of Smith's view about self-interest:</p> -<blockquote class="italic"><p> +<blockquote><p> Far from being an individualist, Smith believed it is the influence of society that transforms people into moral beings. He thought that people often misjudge their own self-interest. @@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ people often misjudge their own self-interest. <p> Even more directly to the point:</p> -<blockquote class="italic"><p> +<blockquote><p> [Adam Smith] regarded the attempt to explain all human behavior on the basis of self-interest as analytically misguided and morally pernicious. <a href="#fn1">[1]</a> @@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ it is time to fight for a moral principle even if it becomes necessary to sacrifice, or at least qualify, their own self-interest. In the words of Thomas Sowell, a free-market theorist of our time:</p> -<blockquote class="italic"><p> +<blockquote><p> There are, of course, noneconomic values. Indeed, there are <em>only</em> noneconomic values. Economics is not a value itself but merely a method of trading off one value against another. If @@ -201,7 +201,7 @@ permitted in any medium, provided this notice is preserved.</p> <p class="unprintable">Updated: <!-- timestamp start --> -$Date: 2020/10/06 08:00:33 $ +$Date: 2020/11/10 17:00:48 $ <!-- timestamp end --> </p> </div> |