Economic Behaviour As If Others Too Had Interests. (Record no. 48800)
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| International Standard Book Number | 9789956728985 |
| Qualifying information | (electronic bk.) |
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| Canceled/invalid ISBN | 9789956727438 |
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| System control number | (OCoLC)817820078 |
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| Original cataloging agency | MiAaPQ |
| Language of cataloging | eng |
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| 050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | BJ1474 .T36 2012 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Tangonyire, Chegedua. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Economic Behaviour As If Others Too Had Interests. |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT | |
| Edition statement | 1st ed. |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Oxford : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Langaa RPCIG, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2012. |
| 264 #4 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | ©2012. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 1 online resource (238 pages) |
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| Carrier type term | online resource |
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| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | 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 Altruism -- Community 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 -- Socialism -- Advantages 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. |
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| Formatted contents note | The Power of Multinational Corporations -- The Multinational Corporations and Advertisement -- Knowledge 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 Responses -- State 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 -- Who or What Factors are Responsible for Poverty in Africa? -- Effects of Slave Trade and Colonialism on Africa -- Global Forces and Lack of Technology -- Economic growth: Africa's new god -- Chapter 11 - Education For Altruistic Egoism -- Home education for Altruistic Egoism -- School Education for Altruistic Egoism -- Civil Society Education for Altruistic egoism -- Religious Education for Altruistic Egoism -- The Role of Media in the Education for Altruistic Egoism -- Education for Sustainable Development in Africa -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Back cover. |
| 588 ## - SOURCE OF DESCRIPTION NOTE | |
| Source of description note | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources. |
| 590 ## - LOCAL NOTE (RLIN) | |
| Local note | Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Egoism. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Self-interest. |
| 655 #4 - INDEX TERM--GENRE/FORM | |
| Genre/form data or focus term | Electronic books. |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Achal, Kyaligonza. |
| 776 08 - ADDITIONAL PHYSICAL FORM ENTRY | |
| Relationship information | Print version: |
| Main entry heading | Tangonyire, Chegedua |
| Title | Economic Behaviour As If Others Too Had Interests |
| Place, publisher, and date of publication | Oxford : Langaa RPCIG,c2012 |
| International Standard Book Number | 9789956727438 |
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| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | ProQuest (Firm) |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=1997148">https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=1997148</a> |
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