Underdevelopment and Development in Brazil: Volume IEconomic Structure and Change, 1822-1947By Nathaniel H Leff * Price: $94.50 * ISBN: 978-0-415-59507-0 * Publish Date: December 15th 2010 * Imprint: Routledge * Pages: 252 pages * Description * Contents * SubjectsDescription:First published in 1982, this work offers an analysis Brazils long-term economic history and development, spanning the period from independence to post-war industrial growth. The book focuses upon the classic problem of why Brazil failed to develop economically during the nineteenth century in a manner similar to the United States and other regions of recent settlement.This volume discusses in detail the principle features of Brazils economic landscape between 1822 and 1947, containing special coverage of topics such as slavery and the elastic supply of low cost labour from overseas; the inelastic supply of domestic output; the critical importance of the domestic agricultural sector and the lack of low-cost transportation; the reasons for the failure of international trade to act as an engine for generalized economic development; the special importance of economic infrastructure and public finance for the onset of sustained economic growth and structural change; and the central features of Brazilian development and industrialisation in the first half of the twentieth century.Contents: 1. Introduction Part I: The Nineteenth Century 2. An Overview 3. The Pace of Income Growth 4. Slavery, European Integration and the Elastic Supply of Labour 5. International Trade 6. Inflation and the Inelastic Supply off Output 7. Economic Retardation and Development Part II: The Acceleration of Development, 1900-1947 8. Industrialization and Development, 1900-1947 9. Pre-1947 Brazil as a Dependent Economy 10. ConclusionsSubjects: 1. Development Economics 2. Social Inequality 3. Urban Geography 4. Development Geography 5. Planning - Human Geography 6. Population Geography 7. Demography 8. Development Studies 9. Cities & the Developing World 10. Development Policy 11. Rural Development 12. Development Theory 13. Urban Development 14. Regional Development Pessoalmente, nao concederia tanta importancia ao chamado "lulismo" quanto esses sociologos e cientistas politicos que imaginam tratar-se de algo consistente, quando eu vejo mero conjunturalismo, falta de substancia e total vazio de ideias. Dificil, assim, associar o pretenso lulismo ao varguismo, ao peronismo e outros ismos que existiram por ai, embasados em ideias, discursos, enfim alguma coerencia qualquer, o que esta longe de ser o caso com esse oportunismo politico...LULISMO: da Era dos Movimentos Sociais a Ascensao da Nova Classe Media BrasileiraRuda RicciEditora Contraponto/Fundacao Astrojildo PereiraISBN 978-85-89216-28-9 Este livro analisa dois temas que se entrecruzam: a emergencia do lulismo no mesmo instante em que os movimentos sociais surgidos nos anos 1980 (que grande parte da literatura especializada denominou de novos movimentos sociais) caminhava para sua institucionalizacao, alterando, na pratica, o ideario anti-institucionalista que os caracterizava. Ambas as situacoes o surgimento do lulismo e a mutacao dos movimentos sociais brasileiros nascem sob o mesmo signo e motivacao. O esforco aqui contido e o da tentativa de mergulhar no merito desta transformacao politica do Brasil, que cruzou ousadia e inovacoes, configurando uma pagina da historia politica de nosso pais sem paralelo.A logica dos movimentos sociais foi se transmutando em algo proximo do que Claus Offe