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Wed 10 Oct 2008Extravagant Gatsby era leaves trail of indebtedness
OPINION:The malign influence of 'heedless self-interest' may be difficult to trace but its consequences lie all around us, writes Elaine Byrne
'WE HAVE always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics . . . We are beginning to abandon our tolerance of the abuse of power by those who betray for profit the elementary decencies of life."
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