ANTH 2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Creative Destruction, Valle Hermoso, Tamaulipas, Joseph Schumpeter
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A project to make a positive change in the world. Ex. irrigation system, education, health improvements, infrastructure. Ex. hurricane develops by itself (its own dynamic- nothing making it happen) Economic booms and bust cycles (difficult to control) Ngo that goes and develops new agricultural technique in nigeria. Development is a social process that agents attempt to direct and change. Identify place with economic crisis, lack of healthcare, lack of education, etc. and go make it better. Economic system builds up by breaking old and making new. Vulnerability, loss of control over agricultural land, and mexican. Railroads bring big companies that industrialize agriculture. Lot of self-sufficient people (peasants) brought into wage-labor system. Economic downturn (crisis) or bad weather (droughts) creates big wealth gap. Building of dams along rivers (irrigation infrastructure) Gave land and training to those that fought in revolution. Makes deal with new government of mexico. Given projects to work on when they got back (work on farmland)
