Roots of Brazil's Relative Economic Backwardness explains Brazil's development level in light of modern theories regarding economic growth and international economics. It focuses on both the proximate and fundamental causes of Brazil's slow development, turning currently dominant hypotheses upside down. To support its arguments, the book presents extensive statistical analysis of Brazilian long-term development, with some new series on per capita GDP, population ethnical composition, and human capital stock, among others. It is an important resource in the ongoing debate on the causes of Latin American underdeveloped economies. Argues that low human capital accumulation is the major source of Brazilian relative underdevelopmentConsiders class conflict as the major determinant of Brazil's historically low human capital accumulation and underdevelopmentPresents new statistical information about Brazilian early development INDICE: 1. Introduction2. Historical Origins of Brazil's Relative Backwardness3. A Simple Model of World Equilibrium with International Trade and No Restriction on Factor Mobility4. Some Empirical Evidence on the Sources of Brazil's Current Relative Backwardness5. Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital and its Role on Physical Capital Accumulation6. Migration Profile and Human Capital Building in Brazil and the United States in the 19th Century7. Genesis of Brazilian Human Capital: from Colony to the 19th Century8. Relatively Declining in the 19th Century9. Stabilization of Relative Backwardness10. Alternative Explanations for Brazil's Relative Backwardness11. The Fundamental Cause of the Emergence of Relative Backwardness12. Social Conflict as the Source of Brazil's Relative Backwardness13. Social Conflicts and Human Capital Accumulation in the Period of Search for National Identity14. Conclusions
- ISBN: 978-0-12-809756-4
- Editorial: Academic Press
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 280
- Fecha Publicación: 01/09/2016
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés
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