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. |
From inside the book
Results 6-10 of 83
... period. This interregional trade helped São Paulo acquire the slaves it needed during the initial expansion of coffee planting in the late 1860s and early 1870s, from just 80,000 in 1864 to 175,000 in 1874, but could only help to stem ...
... period of time, such as payable in the month of March. The most important aspects of the bills of exchange standardized in the Commercial Code, from the point of view of financial intermediation, were that they were transferable with a ...
You have reached your viewing limit for this book.
You have reached your viewing limit for this book.
You have reached your viewing limit for this book.
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 | |