Análisis económico de La caverna de José Saramago
Keywords:
Literature and economics, creative destruction, capitalist systemAbstract
After recognizing the tremendous comprehension of the economic system behavior that José Saramago shows in his whole literary work, this article criticizes the fatalist vision of markets that is manifested in his novel, highlighting valuable elements of the system that were excluded of the novel, and appreciating the process of creative destruction studied by Schumpeter as one of the main pillars in material and human progress. It is shown that Saramago's approach in is rather associable to a luddistic spirit than to his affinities with communist thinking.
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