The Ecuadorian Oil Era - Nature, Rent, and the State

By focusing on a half-century of recent Latin American economic history, this book presents a multidisciplinary approach to examining the relentless pursuit of development in the Global South and aims to revitalise the academic debate on whether having abundant natural resources is a blessing or a curse. Its pioneering diachronic comparative approach of analysing two Ecuadorian oil booms, those in 1972-1980 and 2003-2014, reveals processes of continuity and change in the capacity of this peripheral state to intervene in its national development process and the consequences of this on its social formation, framed by the contemporary trends of global capitalism and the irruption of environmental thinking into development policymaking.

Summary

By focusing on a half-century of recent Latin American economic history, this book presents a multidisciplinary approach to examining the relentless pursuit of development in the Global South and aims to revitalise the academic debate on whether having abundant natural resources is a blessing or a curse. Its pioneering diachronic comparative approach of analysing two Ecuadorian oil booms, those in 1972–1980 and 2003–2014, reveals processes of continuity and change in the capacity of this peripheral state to intervene in its national development process and the consequences of this on its social formation, framed by the contemporary trends of global capitalism and the irruption of environmental thinking into development policymaking.

Product details

• Authors: Pedro Alarcón
• Publisher: Nomos
• Languages: English, German
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2021
• EAN: 9783848779857
• ISBN: 978-3-8487-7985-7
• No. of pages: 245
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 14 mm x 228 mm
• Weight: 360 g
• Series: Studien zu Lateinamerika | Latin America Studies
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Comparative and international political science; Erdöl, Entwicklungspolitik, Lateinamerika, Sustainability, Süd- und Zentralamerika (inklusive Mexiko), Lateinamerika, Latin America, Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie, Umweltschützer: Denkansätze und Ideologien, NG-Rabatt, Umweltökonomie, Energiewirtschaft und Versorgungsunternehmen, Entwicklungsstudien, Global South, Ecology, Ölboom, Neo-Extraktivismus, Umweltpolitik und Protokolle, Rainforest, rentier capitalism, Rohstoffländer, Peripheriestaat, Umweltpolitischer Diskurs, Development policy, Commodity countries, BuenVivir, Deforestation, global capitalism