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  • It is not a correct deduction from the Principles of Economics that enlightened self-interest always operates in the public interest† Experience does not show that individuals when they make up a social unit are always less clear-sighted than when they act separately.

    -John Maynard, 1st Baron Keynes (of Tilton)
    Essays in Persuasion.

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