Synopsis
Beyond the Wealth of Nations: Essays on a Search for Understanding, Community & Productivity is a work that traces the meandering contours of the conceptual and ideological topography of historical as well as international politics. It incisively probes the ideological systems of thought of capitalism, communism, democracy, and socialism; providing the reader with elemental reassessments of those conceptual frames of thought, as well as with a robust conceptualization of their dynamic interaction with one another, while, at the same time, relating them to policy preferences as well as prescriptions, in addition to subjecting them to the litmus test of empirical validation, especially as they pertain to so-called developing countries. Aniagolu's Beyond the Wealth of Nations, a title he no doubt adapted, tongue in cheek perhaps, from the title to Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations published in 1776, also undertakes a rigorous examination of the relationship between religion and politics, not merely from the point of view of their role in electoral politics, as is often the case in the United States, but from the more philosophical perspective of the meaning of religious dogma as well as doctrine to the modern world, science and technology, feminism, and the social compact. Beyond the Wealth of Nations is Prof. Emeka Aniagolu's fifth book. It employs the use of descriptively rich language, some of which are almost lyrical in their fluency, to breakdown to bite-size morsels, otherwise cumbersome, and in some instances, lugubrious concepts as well as prognostications. This work will stand the college educator in good stead for many years to come by serving as a powerful tool with which to demystify the oracles of philosophical knowledge in the social sciences and the humanities.
About the Author
Professor Emeka Aniagolu is from Enugu State, Nigeria. He attended the renowned high school in Nigeria, Government College Umuahia. He did his undergraduate work in Political Science at Xavier University, Cincinnati, Ohio, and his graduate work in Political Science-African and African American Studies, at The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. He is an Assistant Professor and the Assistant Director for the Black World Studies of Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio, where he teaches African and African-American History and Politics. Emeka Aniagolu's first novel, Black Mustard Seed, is critically acclaimed by major scholars in the field of African Literature (including the greatest living African writer, Chinua Achebe), and was nominated for the Commonwealth Writers Prize in August of 2002. His second novel, African Glimpses: Three Short Stories, also received critical reviews and acclaim. He is the author of five works of fiction and two works of non-fiction: one in political history and theory-Beyond the Wealth of Nations (2006); and the other in history, Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: A Multicultural History of Western & World Civilization (2008). His third work of non-fiction and his seventh book so far, Co-Whites: How & Why White Women Betrayed the Movement for Racial Equality in the United States, is forthcoming this winter or early spring. Professor Aniagolu is the recipient of numerous awards and recognitions, including The Ohio State University Teaching Excellence Award and the Living Faith Award in the State of Ohio. He is the CEO/Publisher of the Ohio-based literary magazine, African Weekender.
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