Exploitation, Unequal Exchange and Dependency: A Dialectical Development(88 American University Studies, Series 5: Philosophy)

Table of Contents:
Contents: International economic relations; Economic Development; Capitalism - Developing Countries; Socialism - Developing Countries; Dependency; Developing Countries - dependency on foreign countries. Graduate Level and Beyond: The book synthesizes the classical theory of exploitation, the theory of unequal exchange, and dependecy theory which no philosopher has examined methodologically from a philosophical perspective.

About the Author :
The Author: Paul O. Otubusin is Associate Professor and Chairman of the Department of Philosophy at Calumet College, Hammond, in Indiana. Dr. Otubusin, a practicing attorney with the Chicago Law Firm of Otubusin & Associat, P.C., has taught at Loyola University, and has served as Educational Consultant to Pane Consulting Group of Chicago. He is a Consultant on Ethics to Governor's State University, University Park, Illinois, a Regent of the African International Univerisity, Oakland, California, a Board member of the African Chamber of Commerce, an ethics Board member of St. Catherine's Hospital, East Chicago, Indiana, and a Editorial Advisor of Collegiate Press, Alta Loma, California. A respected leader in his field and a notable speaker, Dr. Otubusin is listed in Who's Who in American Law, The Who's Who of American Business Leaders and The Who's Who Worldwide. He received his Diploma degree from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, B.A. from Urban University, Rome, M.A. from the University of Lagos, Nigeria, M.A. from Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, M.B.A. from Illinois Institute of Technology, Juris Doctor from the College of Law of Illinois Institute of Technology, and Ph.D. from Loyola University of Chicago. He is the author of several articles and the coeditor of Classical and Contemporary Moral Issues and Ethics: A Critical Introduction.

Review :
This work is a significant and original work, a rare attempt by a philosopher to engage, in a sophsiticated manner, the theorists of Third World underdevelopment. Political philosophers and political scientists alike will profit from Otubusin's analysis, which ranges from the conceptual and normative to concrete historical instantiation. (David Schweickart, Loyola University of Chicago)The work brings welcome reason to the emontional topic of exploitation. By examining the three leading theories of exploitation, the author covers the principal theoretic approaches to understanding the topic. While preferring dependency theory to what he calls 'developmentalism,' he shows why dependency theory is unable to prescribe solutions for Third Worldimpoverishment. (Thomas Donaldson, Senoir Research Fellow, Kennedy Institute for Ethics Georgetown University)Otubusin's 'Exploitation, Unequal Exchange and Dependency' is a creative, even startling, examination of the relations of the First and Third worlds from three radically different and customarily unconnected points of view. It provides an exhaustive and exceptionally useful set of supplementary reading suggestions. (Valerie J. Simms, Chair, Department of Political Science Northeastern Illinois University)