LEADER 04809nam 2200661Ia 450 001 9910453087103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9956-728-85-3 010 $a1-283-63808-8 010 $a9956-728-98-5 035 $a(CKB)2550000000711363 035 $a(EBL)1997148 035 $a(OCoLC)817820078 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000769564 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11941737 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000769564 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10784886 035 $a(PQKB)11099447 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1997148 035 $a(OCoLC)815824664 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse24340 035 $a(PPN)198677820 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1997148 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10608754 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL395054 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000711363 100 $a20121015d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aEconomic behaviour as if others too had interests$b[electronic resource] /$fRaymond Chegedua Tangonyire & Lawrence Kyaligonza Achal 210 $aBamenda, Cameroon $cLangaa RPCIG$dc2012 215 $a1 online resource (238 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a9956-727-43-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $aCover ; 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 327 $aPhilanthropic 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 327 $aSocialismAdvantages 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 327 $aThe 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 327 $aChapter 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 327 $aConceptualizing poverty: Definitions, Dimensions or Nature and Measurement 606 $aEgoism 606 $aSelf-interest 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aEgoism. 615 0$aSelf-interest. 700 $aTangonyire$b Raymond Chegedua$0863926 701 $aAchal$b Lawrence Kyaligonza$0863927 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910453087103321 996 $aEconomic behaviour as if others too had interests$91928537 997 $aUNINA