Native Capital: Financial Institutions and Economic Development in São Paulo, Brazil, 1850-1920

by Anne G. Hanley

This book studies the development of banks and stock and bond exchanges in S o 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 S o 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804750726
• ISBN13: 9780804750721
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.2"