Das patologias da economia monetária aos patógenos que ameaçam a humanidade: financeirização do espaço rural e produção social de pandemias

Abstract

This paper presents a synthesis of the relationship between the expansion of monoculture in rural areas and its symbiosis with the emergence of new diseases. It also demonstrates the close link between the choice of monoculture and the expansion of finance in rural areas. Nationally, the paper presents the forms of financialization of Brazilian cultivated land, from joint-stock companies to Investment Funds in Agro-industrial Production Chains (Fiagro), recently regulated by the Senate. Finally, the paper points to ways in which economic science can be used to support environmental causes, just as Keynes, in his pre-General Theory writings, sought to reposition economic science in service of humanity and not profits.