Open AccessA Economia do Isolamento
Author(s) -
Flávio da Silveira Bruno
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
revista inteligência empresarial/inteligência empresarial
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2763-9827
pISSN - 1517-3860
DOI - 10.36559/namo4980
Subject(s) - rationality , perception , counterpoint , sociology , industrial society , covid-19 , industrial revolution , economics , socioeconomic status , capital (architecture) , positive economics , neoclassical economics , economic system , political science , political economy , economy , epistemology , law , history , philosophy , medicine , pedagogy , disease , pathology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , population , demography , archaeology
This essay analyzes the effects of the pandemic caused by Covid-19 on the acceleration of socioeconomic changes that have been associated with the fourth industrial revolution. The essay summarizes the characteristics of the dominant rationality in the evolution of the capitalist industrial economy based on the Schumpeterian theory, to show how this same rationality acted in the preservation of the natural environment of capital, conditioning and restricting the vision of society's future. Contrasting the dominant and contradictory perception of infinite growth with finite resources, a process of critical counterpoint is developed, based on examples of news headlines and notorious dilemmas, established by public authorities and social medias. The essay concludes that a new rationality based on human criteria for perception of development may emerge due to the behavioral changes produced in society by the pandemic.