In recent years, Brazil has seen an increase in formal employment, the raising of the minimum wage, a recovery in the purchasing power of the average wage, a drop in open unemployment and curbs on unprotected subcontracting. Average household incomes have risen and poverty has declined. How was...

Os autores procuram demonstrar o pouco poder explicativo da teoria neoclassica e da teoria da dependencia no que diz respeito as consequencias economicas da independencia brasileira. Ao contrario do que faz constar a concepcao neoclassica, a independencia politica, no caso do Brasil, nao...