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      Marx contra o otimismo tecnológico: economia "imaterial" desmistificada e desdobramentos para as questões ambientais Translated title: Marx against technological optimism: demystified "immaterial" economy and outcomes concerning environmental issues

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      tecnologia, desmaterialização, Marx, technology, dematerialization, Marx

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          Resumo: Em trabalhos anteriores, realizamos uma abrangente revisão da literatura econômica relacionada ao debate ambiental (especialmente aquele em torno das mudanças climáticas). De modo geral, as diversas formulações - desde aquelas apoiadas na estrutura teórica neoclássica até as mais heterodoxas - tendem a confluir, com poucas exceções, para a noção de desmaterialização; ou, melhor dizendo, para a esperança de que o avanço tecnológico permita a realização de uma produção supostamente imaterial. O presente estudo parte dessa leitura e tem como objetivo a desmistificação (i.e. sua desconstrução crítica) da desmaterialização como possibilidade real na atual formação socioeconômica. Pela própria natureza desse expediente crítico, simultaneamente propomos um argumento teórico próprio, alicerçado em Marx, capaz de explicar por que a esperança no processo de desmaterialização tende a ser frustrada sistematicamente enquanto a lógica da produção e da distribuição da riqueza social estiver estruturada em torno do capital.

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          Abstract: In previous papers, we have conducted a broad review of the economic literature concerning environmental debates (especially the debate on climate change). In general, the several considerations - ranging from the ones built upon neoclassical theory to the ones based on heterodox thinking - tend to converge, with very few exceptions, to the notion of dematerialization; or, to put it clearly, to the hope that technological development will allow for the realization of a supposedly immaterial production. This paper starts from these previous assessments and has the objective of demystifying (that is, deconstructing critically) the notion of dematerialization as a real possibility in the present socioeconomic formation. Along with the very nature of this critique, we simultaneously intend to offer a theoretical argument of our own, rooted in Marx's thinking and capable of explaining why the faith in the dematerialization process tends to be systematically frustrated as long as the production and distribution of social wealth is structured around capital.

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                Contributors
                Role: ND
                Journal
                neco
                Nova Economia
                Nova econ.
                Nova Economia
                1980-5381
                April 2016
                : 26
                : 1
                : 97-122
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                [1 ] Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora Brazil
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                S0103-63512016000100097
                10.1590/0103-6351/2182
                93856024-f703-4bab-89cd-71011baf3a81

                This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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                General economics
                tecnologia,desmaterialização,Marx,technology,dematerialization
                General economics
                tecnologia, desmaterialização, Marx, technology, dematerialization

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