Boaventura de Sousa Santos – Development or self-determination? « Alice

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Boaventura de Sousa Santos – Development or self-determination?

Advanced seminar, in Portuguese. Coimbra 18.05.2012.

Boaventura de Sousa Santos explores the economic alternatives to the endless accumulation of capitalism and the destruction of the environment. The study of non-capitalist forms of organisation, within the perspective of a plural economy, includes recognising and valuing initiatives such as cooperatives, fair trade, political ecology, time banks, etc.

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