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The Brazilian Economy: Growth and Development 5th Edition

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This book is very good at describing, in deep detail, the events that have shaped the Brazilian economy into what it is today. With a bias more towards history than economics, the book reads like storytelling sometimes, with less analysis than I had hoped for. The description of today's Brazilian economy is shorter than I had hoped for, but sufficient for a basic introduction.

The book serves as reference as well for any historical fact affecting Brazil's economy, especially in the late 20th century.

This book has been one of my favorite resources in research on the economic development of Brazil. The book revisits what happened in Brazil from the turn of the century forward. This is imperative to appreciating and understanding why decisions were made the way they were made. It also gives fantastic details on what exactly happened with each new policy that was implemented. Most pieces fail to do this seemingly basic work. Quite a few pieces get caught up in the politics to the point that they provide unfair accounts of what happened. This book, though it provides some commentary on what happened in the political sense, primarily gives you the facts (data) and connects those facts, sans all the opinion and vibrato of other pieces.

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