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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... Brazil could sell all it planted. With no real competition from anywhere else in the world, São Paulo dominated Brazilian and international coffee production by the turn of the twentieth century. As late as 1880, however, this region ...
... Brazil's economic history is how São Paulo came to industrialize so quickly and dominate so thoroughly the Brazilian economy. After all, coffee was not Brazil's first important export crop nor its last. Sugar before and rubber after ...
... Brazilian historiography on economic development because Brazil's leading economic historians had asserted that export agriculture and industry were separate beasts, incompatible and in constant struggle with one another. The accepted ...
Financial Institutions and Economic Development in São Paulo, Brazil, 1850-1920 Anne G. Hanley. 23 income from the ... Brazilian-born sons of Portuguese merchants in colonial Bahia generally became landowners, professionals, or priests ...
... Brazil In spite of the clear central influence of financial institutions on the range of development experiences ... Brazil's economic transformation in the nineteenth century have focused on the financial institutions that allowed the ...
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 | |