The Brazilian economy: Growth & development

by Werner Baer

Baer's text on the Brazilian economy has been revised and expanded to incorporate new scholarship and events that have occurred since the publication of the previous edition. In addition to updating the historical chapters based on information gleaned from current research, Baer has added new discussions on the growth of the Brazilian debt crisis, the resurgence of inflation in the 1980s, the ill-fated Cruzado Plan, and changes in the industrial structure of the country.

Genres: Economics, History, Nonfiction, Brazil

354 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1979

About the author

Werner Baer was an American economist at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and the Jorge Lemann Professor of Economics. He received his bachelor's degree from Queen's College in 1953, and a Master's and a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1955 and 1958 respectively. His research centered on Latin America's industrialization and economic development, especially of Import Substitution Industrialization (ISI) and Brazil.

Reviews

[May Ling · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book has been one of my favorite resources in research on the economic development of Brazil. The book revisits what happened in Brazil from the turn of the century forward. So much of what happened in Brazil differs from other nations. It is very difficult to understand Brazil from a specific point in time or area. You really need to know the entire history of what happened. This book provides that. It also gives fantastic details on what exactly happened with each new policy that was implemented. Most pieces fail to do this seemingly basic work. Quite a few pieces get caught up in the politics to the point that they provide unfair accounts of what happened. This book, thought it provides some commentary on what happened in the political sense, primarily gives you the facts and connects those facts, sans all the opinion and vibrato of other pieces.

Thumbs up!!