Native Capital: Financial Institutions and Economic Development in São Paulo, Brazil, 1850-1920This book studies the development of banks and stock and bond exchanges in São Paulo, Brazil, during an era of rapid economic diversification. It assesses the contribution of these financial institutions to that diversification, and argues that they played an important role in São Paulo's urbanization and industrialization by the start of the twentieth century. It finds that government regulatory policy was important in limiting and shaping the activities of these institutions, but that pro-development policies did not always have their intended effects. This is the first book on São Paulo's famous industrialization to identify the strong relationship between financial institutions and São Paulo's economic modernization at the turn of the century. It is unique in Brazilian economic history, but contributes to a body of literature on financial systems and economic change in other parts of the world. |
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Financial Institutions and Economic Development in São Paulo, Brazil, 1850-1920 Anne G. Hanley. NOTES. ON. CONVENTIONS. CURRENCY The Brazilian currency during the time of this study was the milréis, and was written as 1$000. It ranged in ...
... Brazil and the United States for their assistance in seeing this project to completion. The Instituto de Pesquisas Econômicas at the University of São Paulo sponsored me during my field research. I wish to thank Dr. José Paulo Z. Chahad ...
... Brazil. At New York University, Warren Dean and Nicolás Sánchez Albornoz taught me Latin America's rich history. Stanford's history department offered an exciting intellectual and social environment in which to study, thanks in no small ...
... Brazil. I became a historian, in large part, because Fabian Giroux and Dennis O'Hern made history come alive for me in high school. I became a Brazilian historian because of the late Warren Dean, who wrote a book that made me want to ...
... Brazil. Brazilians are portrayed, even by other Brazilians, as a sun-worshiping, workaverse population ruled by patronage and reciprocal obligation rather than the economic relations of the market. São Paulo is the recipient of masses ...
Contents
Brokers and Business Finance under the Empire | |
The Republican Revolution and the Rise of | |
The Republican Revolution and the Failure | |
Commercial Banking and the Business | |
Conclusions | |
NOTES | |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | |
INDEX | |