Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest?

I know of no example in time or place of a society that has been marked by a large measure of political freedom, and that has not also used something comparable to a free market to organize the bulk of economic activity.

There is one and only one social responsibility of business - to use it resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without deception or fraud.

History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition.

Drugs are a tragedy for addicts. But criminalizing their use converts that tragedy into a disaster for society, for users and non-users alike. Our experience with the prohibition of drugs is a replay of our experience with the prohibition of alcoholic beverages.

The way you solve things is by making it politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing.

If you cannot state a proposition clearly and unambiguously, you do not understand it.