# Self-Interest and Social Order in Classical Liberalism: The Selfish System

**URL:** <https://www.libertarianism.org/podcasts/excursions/self-interest-and-social-order-in-classical-liberalism-the-selfish-system>

**By** George H. Smith

**Published:** June 14, 2017

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George H. Smith discusses various objections to the claim that all actions are necessarily self-interested.

[Originally published in essay form on December 5, 2014.](https://www.libertarianism.org/columns/self-interest-social-order-classical-liberalism-selfish-system)

_Narrated by Daniel Hyland._