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Roots of Brazilian Relative Economic Backwardness

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  • Rands Barros, Alexandre

    (Datametrica, Recife, Brazil)

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Roots of Brazil’s Relative Economic Backwardness explains Brazil’s development level in light of modern theories regarding economic growth and international economics. It focuses on both the proximate and fundamental causes of Brazil’s slow development, turning currently dominant hypotheses upside down. To support its arguments, the book presents extensive statistical analysis of Brazilian long-term development, with some new series on per capita GDP, population ethnical composition, and human capital stock, among others. It is an important resource in the ongoing debate on the causes of Latin American underdeveloped economies. Argues that low human capital accumulation is the major source of Brazilian relative underdevelopment Considers class conflict as the major determinant of Brazil’s historically low human capital accumulation and underdevelopment Presents new statistical information about Brazilian early development

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  • Rands Barros, Alexandre, 2016. "Roots of Brazilian Relative Economic Backwardness," Elsevier Monographs, Elsevier, edition 1, number 9780128097564.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:monogr:9780128097564
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    Keywords

    19th century human capital accumulation; Acquired cognitive abilities; Africans; Attitude or personality factors; Brazilian 19th-century relative development losses; Brazilian comparative development; Brazilian growth; Brazilian history; Brazilian relative backwardness; Brazilian relative per capita GDP; Class conflicts; Class consciousness; Conflicts as engineers of growth and development; Dependency theory; Development account; Disparity emerging from population skills; Economic background; Economic specializations; Educational indicators; Educational policies; Estimation of human capital stock; European and Japanese migration; European mass migration; European versus Brazilian performance in 19th century; Free physical capital mobility; Fundamental determinants of development; General assumptions; Human capital and backwardness; Human capital migration; Human capital over history; Human capital; Hypotheses; Inequality decomposition; Institutionalist development model; Institutions as transmission mechanism; Intergenerational transmission of human capital; Intergenerational transmissions of human capital; Intergenerational utility optimization; International trade and development; Latin American structuralism; Limits of market forces; Long-term trend of backwardness; Method; Methodological individualism; Microfoundations of a world model; Multiple equilibria; Native Americans and Europeans in Brazilian population composition; Natural resources and development; Nature of human capital; New institutionalism; Nonconvergence; Periods of Brazilian history; Persistence of inequality; Personality factors; Physical capital and development; Political background; Proximate causes of development; Public education and class conflict; Public policies and development; Social conflicts and development; Social conflicts; Socially inherited abilities; Spain in 19th century; Surrogated per capita income; Sweden in 19th century; Total factor productivity; UK in 19th century; Uneven per capita output among countries;
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