Underdeveloping the Amazon : extraction, unequal exchange, and the failure of the modern state /
Stephen G. Bunker.
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1988
- 279 p. : mapas ; 23 cm.
Bibliografía: p. 256-276.
Energy values in unequal exchange and uneven development -- Extractive economies and the degradation of natural and human enviroments -- The modern state, capitalist expansion, and amazonian extraction -- The limits of state power on a extractive periphery -- Power differentials between agencies and the distortion of state programs -- The cost of modernity : complex bureaucracy and the failure of the colonozation program -- Collaboration, competition, and corruption in two colonization projects -- The failure of cooperatives -- Modernizing land tenure.