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Inglorious Revolution
Political Institutions, Sovereign Debt, and Financial Underdevelopment in Imperial Brazil
Inbunden, 2015
1242 kr
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Nineteenth-century Brazil’s constitutional monarchy credibly committed to repay sovereign debt, borrowing repeatedly in international and domestic capital markets without default. Yet it failed to lay the institutional foundations that private financial markets needed to thrive. This study shows …
Order Against Progress
Government, Foreign Investment, and Railroads in Brazil, 1854-1913
Inbunden, 2003
930 kr
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How did foreign investment in infrastructure affect a relatively backward Latin American economy? The author engages this long-standing issue in Latin American history by applying the methods of the "new economic history" to the study of Brazilian railway development.Railroads have long been viewed …
