Native Capital: Financial Institutions and Economic Development in São Paulo, Brazil, 1850-1920 (Social Science History) - Hardcover

Hanley, Anne G.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0804750726 ISBN 13: 9780804750721

Publisher: Stanford University Press, 2005

Synopsis

This book studies the development of banks and stock and bond exchanges in São Paulo, Brazil, during an era of rapid economic diversification. It assesses the contribution of these financial institutions to that diversification, and argues that they played an important role in São Paulo's urbanization and industrialization by the start of the twentieth century. It finds that government regulatory policy was important in limiting and shaping the activities of these institutions, but that pro-development policies did not always have their intended effects. This is the first book on São Paulo's famous industrialization to identify the strong relationship between financial institutions and São Paulo's economic modernization at the turn of the century. It is unique in Brazilian economic history, but contributes to a body of literature on financial systems and economic change in other parts of the world.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

“Anne G. Hanley...has constructed an excellent, detailed history of the organizations and legal structures that fueled an extraordinary period of financial innovation in Sao Paulo....Native Capital provides an important case study for very important questions in Brazilian and financial history. That the book raises provocative questions is a measure of its success.”—EH.Net
"...will not doubt stand as the definitive study of banking and business finance in Sâo Paulo before 1920 for many years to come."—Business History Review

About the Author:

Anne Hanley is Assistant Professor of History at Northern Illinois University.

About this edition

• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0804750726
• ISBN 13: 9780804750721
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 312