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.

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.