Winning the Battle to Lose the War?: Brazilian Electronics Policy Under US Threat of Sanctions [Paperback]

Maria-Ines Bastos (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0714641111 | ISBN-13: 978-0714641119 | Publication Date: August 18, 1994

A US/Brazil trade conflict on the Brazilian protectionist electronics policy developed during 198589. In that period and under the threat of trade sanctions, a few changes were made in the Brazilian policy. Major consequences of the conflict were felt after its conclusion. It was one important political factor among the forces that pushed for the opening of the Brazilian electronics market in the early 1990s.

Product Details

• Paperback: 200 pages
• Publisher: Routledge (August 18, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0714641111
• ISBN-13: 978-0714641119
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 5.8 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,655,153 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2.0 out of 5 stars Get a better editor!, April 13, 2002

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This review is from: Winning the Battle to Lose the War?: Brazilian Electronics Policy Under US Threat of Sanctions (Paperback)

Okay, Ms. Bastos must be an expert on this issue. This book indeed contains a lot of information. HOWEVER, her English [stinks]. Sentences don't make any sense at all, and it makes your mind numb from exhaustion just trying to read 5 pages. (Forget about a whole chapter.) I am writing a graduate paper on this subject, and have read quite a few books on IPRs. This one is by far the worst of all, just because she didn't get her English checked. "These conditions, which helped the establishment of the microcomputer industry, were, however, imcompatible with sustained development of the whole IT sector, which included a newly born software industry, and therefore, could not persist as justification for a long-term policy orientation." Can anyone make out what she is trying to say? I truly wish she had had a better editor, because this book could have helped a lot with my research on the Brazilian IPR regime. I've given up reading it so that I can preserve my brain cells to write my paper. It is such a shame.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing, May 26, 1999

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This review is from: Winning the Battle to Lose the War?: Brazilian Electronics Policy Under US Threat of Sanctions (Paperback)

This awsome title charts the journey of Arthur Dent across the galaxy in a golden spaceship. Illiterate's Anonymous gives this excellent satire on American satire by Thomas Pynchon 2 thums up.