The Economic Growth of Brazil: A Survey from Colonial to Modern Times, Volume 10Written originally to provide the Brazilian non-specialist with a readable economic survey of his country, this book will be of particular interest to the English-speaking economist and historian for its authoritative assessment of the influence of various factors--political, social, geographical, fiscal, monetary--on Brazil's economic growth and capital formation. The author analyzes the importance of the export agricultural interests, deficit financing, inflation, and the fluctuations of the world coffee market. |
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Contents
Economic Bases | 1 |
CATTLE BREEDING | 10 |
REASONS FOR THE MONOPOLY | 11 |
SETTLEMENT COLONIES IN THE NORTHERN PART | 18 |
CONSEQUENCES OF THE PENETRATION OF SUGAR | 24 |
THE END OF THE COLONIAL PHASE | 33 |
The Slavery Economy of Tropical | 43 |
INCOME FLOW AND GROWTH | 50 |
POTENTIAL | 127 |
EUROPEAN | 134 |
AMAZONIC | 141 |
ELIMINATION | 148 |
INCOME LEVEL AND RATE OF GROWTH IN | 155 |
INCOME FLOW IN THE WAGEEARNING | 165 |
DEFENSE OF THE LEVEL OF EMPLOYMENT | 177 |
REPUBLICAN DECENTRALIZATION AND FORMATION | 186 |
ECONOMIC CONTRACTION | 71 |
The Slavery Economy | 79 |
THE FLOW OF INCOME | 85 |
ECONOMIC REGRESSION AND EXPANSION | 92 |
COLONIAL LIABILITIES | 99 |
COMPARISON WITH THE DEVELOPMENT | 107 |
THE LONGTERM DECLINE IN INCOME LEVEL | 114 |
The Economy of Transition to | 193 |
DEFENSE MECHANISMS IN THE 1929 CRISIS | 203 |
THE SHIFT IN THE DYNAMIC CENTER | 213 |
EXTERNAL DISEQUILIBRIUM AND ITS SPREAD | 224 |
READJUSTMENT OF THE IMPORT COEFFICIENT | 239 |
THE PROSPECTS FOR THE NEXT FEW DECADES | 258 |
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| Title | The Economic Growth of Brazil: A Survey from Colonial to Modern Times, Volume 10 Cal 116 The Economic Growth of Brazil: A Survey from Colonial to Modern Times, Celso Furtado |
| Author | Celso Furtado |
| Translated by | Ricardo W. de Aguiar, Eric Charles Drysdale |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | University of California Press, 1963 |
| ISBN | 0520004418, 9780520004412 |
| Length | 285 pages |
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