Benevolence, self-interest, self love and humanity

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from regard to their own self interest.  We address ourselves not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities but of their advantages.  Nobody but a beggar [...]

Nourishing Enterprise

Britain is facing a “new kind of poverty” with many parents unable to nourish their own families – not through lack of money but lack of knowledge, according to Jamie Oliver.
“This isn’t about fresh trainers or mobile phones or Sky dishes or plasma TV screens – they’ve got all that. It is a poverty of [...]