Native Capital: Financial Institutions and Economic Development in São Paulo, Brazil, 1850-1920
(Part of the Social Science History Series)
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 activities of these institutions, but that pro-development policies did not always have their intended effects. This is the first book on S o Paulo's famous industrialization to identify the strong relationship between financial institutions and S o Paulo's economic modernization at the turn of the century. It is unique in Brazilian economic history, but contributes to a body of literature on financial systems and economic change in other parts of the world.
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