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Underdeveloping the Amazon: Extraction, Unequal Exchange, and the Failure of the Modern State

By Stephen G. Bunker

Book information

Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Year
1985
ISBN
025201121X, 9780252011214
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
24 MB (25160885 bytes)
Edition
First Edition
Pages
279\283
Time added
2016-11-19 06:32:46
Development & Growth;Economics;Business & Money;En

Description

Underdeveloping the Amazon shows how different extractive economies have periodically enriched various dominant classes but progressively impoverished the entire region by disrupting both the Amazon Basin's ecology and human communities. Contending that traditional models of development based almost exclusively on the European and American experience of industrial production cannot apply to a regional economy founded on extraction, Stephen G. Bunker proposes a new model based on the use and depletion of energy values in natural resources as the key to understanding the disruptive forces at work in the Basin.

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