Brazil is frequently portrayed as exhibiting persistent and structural economic inequality that is rooted in the early … inequality for 1905 in what is today Brazil's largest state, using farm-level micro data for some 50,000 farms. Using these … institutions, slavery, farm inequality, and political inequality on long-term development in São Paulo. The principal findings are …

Mining and the State' examines the fundamental economic institutional structure of Brazil through the prism of its … Subsoil and Property Law; 3. Iron and Gold in Pre-Industrial Brazil; 4. The Subsoil as Private Property; 5. Industrializing …