Entropic development and the diversity alternative
This essay is about the second trans-oceanic route planned to connect Central Brazil to the Pacific Ocean through Acre State and Peru. This project is taken as an example of the theses formulated by Rosa Luxemburg and Georgescu-Roegen in 1913 and 1963 respectively. Their theses, supported in Luxembu...
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| Language: | Portuguese |
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Universidade Estadual de Campinas. Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas
2016
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| Online Access: | https://econtents.sbu.unicamp.br/inpec/index.php/ruris/article/view/16937 |
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| Summary: | This essay is about the second trans-oceanic route planned to connect Central Brazil to the Pacific Ocean through Acre State and Peru. This project is taken as an example of the theses formulated by Rosa Luxemburg and Georgescu-Roegen in 1913 and 1963 respectively. Their theses, supported in Luxemburg ́s case by a critical view of marxist political economy, and in Georgescu-Roegen’s work by a critique of neoclassical economics influenced by thermodynamics, converge to a conclusion which remains relevant in our days: economic development – the current name for the accumulation of capital – feeds inevitably from the destruction of natural and social diversity. It is incumbent to Anthropology as a science to take the side of the indigenous peoples and peasant communities in defense of the natural and social diversity, and investigate alternative ways for a good life for humans and non-humans. |
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| ISSN: | 2317-1480 |
