Business Interest Groups 19C Brazil: 78 (Cambridge Latin American Studies, Series Number 78)
Cambridge University Press
Edition: Revised ed., 8/21/2008
EAN 9780521531290, ISBN10: 0521531292
Paperback, 396 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm
Language: English
This book is the first to describe the role of business interest groups, also known as pressure groups, in the development of Brazil during the nineteenth century. Business interest groups strongly affected the modernization and prosperity of agriculture, the pace of industrialisation, and patterns of communications. Although they sometimes initiated enterprises themselves, they most affected development by influencing the scope and direction of government aid. The most important of business interest groups, the commercial associations, also may be seen as institutions through which ties of dependency to better-developed nations overseas were maintained.
Introduction
1. The genesis of Brazilian business interest groups
2. Leadership and organisation
3. Influence, ideology, and public relations
4. The export economy
agricultural quality, markets, and profits
5. The export economy
banking, credit, and currency
6. The export economy
manpower
7. Taxation
8. Industrialisation
9. Communications
regionalism perpetuated
10. Port areas and harbors
efficiency and rivalry
11. Business interest groups and economic and urban integration
12. Business interest groups and the Republic
13. Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography.