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

Name: Underdeveloping the Amazon Extraction, Unequal Exchange, and the Failure of the Modern State
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ISBN: 9780226080321

ISBN-10: 0226080323

ISBN-13: 9780226080321

Edition: 1988

Authors: Stephen G. Bunker

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List price: $37.00
Copyright year: 1988
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 3/20/1990
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 296
Size: 0.63" wide x 0.89" long x 0.07" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Glossary of Acronyms and Abbreviations


Glossary of Words and Phrases in Portuguese Used in the Text


Introduction



Energy Values in Unequal Exchange and Uneven Development



Extractive Economies and the Degradation of Natural and Human Environments



The Modern State, Capitalist Expansion, and Amazonian Extraction



The Limits of State Power on an Extractive Periphery



Power Differentials between Agencies and the Distortion of State Programs



The Cost of Modernity: Complex Bureaucracy and the Failure of the Colonization Program



Collaboration, Competition, and Corruption in Two Colonization Projects



The Failure of Cooperatives



Modernizing Land Tenure


Conclusion


Bibliography


Index