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

Includes bibliographical references.

This book makes a strong case for a vaccine against the virus of selfishness, namely, education for altruistic egoism.

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.

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