In 1800, the per capita income of the United States was twice that of Mexico and roughly the same as Brazil’s. By 1913, it was four times greater than Mexico’s and seven times greater than Brazil’s. This volume seeks to explain the nineteenth-century lag in Latin American economic...

This is the first complete economic and social history of Brazil in the modern period in any language. It provides a detailed analysis of the evolution of the Brazilian society and economy from the end of the empire in 1889 to the present day. The authors elucidate the basic trends that have...

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...