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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... important research assistance. The staffs of the library and manuscripts divisions of the Arquivo do Estado de São Paulo, the Associação Comercial de São Paulo, BOVESPA, and the Patrimônio Histórico da Eletropaulo guided me through ...
... important balancing influence in my life. I am thrilled that they like 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 ...
... important export crop nor its last. Sugar before and rubber after both failed to transform their respective regions with the breadth and depth of the coffee economy. The unusual experience of the coffee economy led to a series of ...
... important capital market by bringing together savers and borrowers drawn from their clientele.15 The notaries' intimate knowledge of their clients' economic lives, and their trustworthiness, put them in the ideal position of having ...
... important creditor in the early modern world is widely recognized as ironic since the Church had laws against usury, which prohibited lending money at interest. But the Church, as well as good Christian businessmen, found ways around ...
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 | |