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    Geopolitical Considerations behind the IT Consumerism
    Geopolitical Considerations behind the IT Consumerism
    Geopolitical Considerations behind the IT Consumerism
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    Geopolitical Considerations behind the IT Consumerism

    By Michele La Neve

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    This book starts with the analysis of the "coltan business" in the Democratic Republic of Congo" and its humanitarian consequences, especially for civilians. However, this is not just a critique to the traditional, short-term, way to do business. The main idea is, in fact, to use those principles retrieved from the moral philosophy, such as the Kantian "moral imperative" also in the business world.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMichele La Neve
    Release dateDec 4, 2012
    ISBN9781301348015
    Geopolitical Considerations behind the IT Consumerism
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    Michele La Neve

    Attorney at Law. Msc in International Business & Global Affairs.

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      Geopolitical Considerations behind the IT Consumerism - Michele La Neve

      Geopolitical Considerations behind the IT Consumerism

      Michele La Neve

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      Copyright 2012 Michele La Neve

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      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      1. GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS ABOUT INTERNATIONAL TRADE, WHAT IS COLTAN?

      1.1 THE IT MARKET WORLDWIDE

      2. THE EXTRACTION OF COLTAN

      3. THE CANONICAL PROSPECTIVE OF THE WAR IN THE DRC

      4. POLITICAL AND HUMANITARIAN ISSUES

      5. STOP CONSUMING IS THE RIGHT WAY TO PURSUE?

      6. THE POLITICAL SCENARIO IN THE REGION

      7. LINKS BETWEEN THE EXPLOITATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND THE CONFLICT IN THE DRC

      7.1 OTHER INITIATIVES TO STOP THE PHENOMENON

      8. IS FAIR TRADE AN OXYMORON?

      9. CONCLUSIONS

      10. APPENDIX

      11. REFERENCES

      Acknowledgments

      I would like to take the opportunity to thank those who helped me in making this text proof readable for their time and their patience; Jackie Gallegos, Folakemi Alli Balogun and David De Fazio, for their friendly help and support.

      I am very happy for the social experience, as Aristotle would say, I have been able to experiment during my studies for all those students I met, the real radix sapientiae of any University.

      Abstract

      This work starts from an academic project for the Policy and Sustainability class at the International University of Monaco, although the topic is the same, the aim is completely different; here I tried to point out a completely different way to deal with business, which should be headed towards human dignity firstly and, as a consequence, towards profit.

      During these difficult years, in fact, we have been experimenting the importance of having moral values. The financial crisis of 2008 is probably the best example of what the utilitarian, short-term approach is; earning money for the sake of doing it does not pay back if there is no development for everybody. This is the lesson we should learn.

      This is what we should aim for, exactly like Adam Smith and Immanuel Kant wrote centuries ago and Amartya Sen and E.F. Schumacher only a few decades ago.

      To support my conclusions, especially the need to switch towards a moral attitude, eventually, I used the Theory of Moral Sentiments and the Critique to Practical Reason written by the aforementioned philosophers, and, in general, material provided by moral philosophy.

      Hopefully, I will be able to going further with my research through further studies.

      1. GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS ABOUT INTERNATIONAL TRADE, WHAT IS COLTAN?

      Homo homini lupus, by Thomas Hobbes, is probably the sentence that best fits and describes what the international trade actually is. Literally, it means the Man is a wolf to Man, where Man has to be understood as human gender and the sentence above describes the basic principles of the natural state. This status claims that the human activity is mainly driven by the personal best interest, by the particulare as Guicciardini would say[1].

      According to this theory, in fact, the human behaviour is not that different from the animal world; recognizing as priorities the survival and the oppression of other men.

      During history, several are the examples of this principle, such as the zero-sum game as epitomized by the realist theory in

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