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Underdeveloping the Amazon

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

By: Stephen G. Bunker

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Paperback | 20 March 1990 | Edition Number 1

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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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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
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