Economic behaviour as if others too had interests / Raymond Chegedua Tangonyire & Lawrence Kyaligonza Achal.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tangonyire, Raymond Chegedua.

Contributor:

Achal, Lawrence Kyaligonza.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Egoism.

Self-interest.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (238 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bamenda, Cameroon : Langaa RPCIG, c2012.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

In the instinct to survive those who are able to dominate the competition go about their activities as if others (humans and non-humans) did not matter or did not have interests. Selfishness becomes more prevalent as a people move from elementary economic systems to modern economic systems. The major reason why economic systems collapse is human selfishness. Despite all the achievements in science and technology, there are still poor people in the world and environmental cataclysms have become daily occurrences. This is because the would-be agents of development, such as Multinational Corporations and states, are largely motivated by selfishness. Unfortunately, poor economies pursue development using borrowed models formulated for selfish reasons. Needless to say, the solution to current economic and environmental challenges does not lie in abstract economic jargons or more advanced technological machinery but in taming the evil of human selfishness. This book makes a strong case for a vaccine against the virus of selfishness, namely, education for altruistic egoism.

Contents:

Cover ; Title page ; Copyright page ; Contents ; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1 - The Hegemony of Human Egoism; Humans as Egoistic Beings; The Human Instinct for Survival: the Origin of Egoism and Altruism; Society as a School of Both Egoism and Altruism; Degrees of Egoism; Solipsism; Selfishness; Self-interest; Chapter 2 - Altruism; Absolute Altruism; Acquired Altruism; Altruistic Egoism ; Deferred Gratification; Symbiotic Reciprocation ; Scrupulous Benefactors ; Composite Beneficiaries; Emotively Egoistic People ; Advertisers; Consanguineous benevolence ; Deontological Altruism

Philanthropic AltruismCommunity Formation; Chapter 3 - Economics And Selfishness; Human Needs vs. Resources; The Limitedness of Resources; Natural Scarcity; Artificial scarcity; The Illusive Endlessness of Human Needs; a. Basic needs; b. Contingent needs; c. Occupational requirements; Wants; Unlocking Private Property; Chapter 4 - Economic Systems As Institutionalized Selfishness; Primitive Economic Systems; Subsistence Economics; Communitarian Economics; Feudalism; Mercantilism; Modern Economic Systems; Liberal Capitalism; Advantages of Liberal Capitalism; Disadvantages of Liberal Capitalism

SocialismAdvantages of Socialism; Disadvantages of Socialism; Mixed Economies; Important Principles for Mixed Economies; The Principle of Subsidiarity; The Common Good Principle; The Break-even Point Principle; The Welfare Principle; Requirements for a Mixed Economy to Achieve Economic Development; Geocentric Economics; Chapter 5 - Development or Egoism?; Development; Economic Growth or Growth mania; The worship of Economic Growth; Toward a Better Definition of Development; Chapter 6 - Egoism and Multinational Corporations; The Power of Multinational Corporations

The Multinational Corporations and AdvertisementKnowledge is Power, Ignorance is Impotence; Unholy Alliances between African Governments and Multinational Corporations; A Case Study of the Multinational Oil Corporations in Nigeria; Ghana, Discovery of Oil and Multinational Corporations; Chapter 7 - Egoism and the Environment; The Anthropological Error; The Conceptual Roots of Anthropocentrism; The Enlightenment and the Omni-Competence of Human Reason; The Industrial Revolution; Contemporary Politics of Environmental Degradation; Fables about the Environment

Chapter 8 - Contemporary Environmental Crisis and ResponsesState of the Environment: the Global Perspective; Global Dispositions and Responses to Environmental Issues; The Solutionists and their proposed solutions to environmental problems; Chapter 9 - Industrialized Countries' Development and Environment Experiences; Responses of Industrial Societies to the Environmental Crisis; Chapter 10 - African Development and Environment Experiences; Strong Aspirations amidst Many Dilemmas; Poverty: the Persistent but Unwelcomed Guest

Conceptualizing poverty: Definitions, Dimensions or Nature and Measurement

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9789956728855

9956728853

9781283638081

1283638088

9789956728985

9956728985

OCLC:

817820078