1st Edition
Brazil’s Economy An Institutional and Sectoral Approach
Table of Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Contributor Biographies
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Case Studies in Brazil’s Economy Jerry Dávila and Maria da Graça Derengowski Fonseca, Jaques Kerstenetzky and Andre Modenesi
Chapter 1: The Banking System: Notes on the Brazilian Case André Modenesi, Tarcisio Gouveia and Kamaiaji de Souza Castor
Chapter 2: For Profit Higher Education in Brazil: Size and Growth Strategies Eduardo Pontual Ribeiro
Chapter 3: An Economic History of the Television Industry in Brazil Fabio Sá-Earp, George Kornis, and Luiz Carlos Delorme Prado
Chapter 4: The story of Metal Leve S.A. and its leadership in the Brazilian auto parts industry: 1950-1996 Jaques Kerstenetzky
Chapter 5: Competitive Standards and Firms in Brazil: The case of TOTVS Paulo Bastos Tigre and Leonardo Moutinho
Chapter 6: Brazil’s Embraer: Institutional Entrepreneurship Werner Baer and Joseph Love
Chapter 7: Brazil’s Music Market: A Taxonomy of Entrepreneurship and Competition (from the 19th to the 21st Centuries) Marc Adam Hertzman and Ronaldo Lemos
Chapter 8: Nationalism and the Development of the Brazilian Steel Industry Jerry Dávila
Index
Biography
Jerry Dávila is Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor of Brazilian History and Director of the Lemann Institute for Brazilian Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.
André de Melo Modenesi is Associate Professor at the Instituto de Economia at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Maria da Graça Derengowski Fonseca is Associate Professor at the Instituto de Economia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Jaques Kerstenetzky is Associate Professor at the Instituto de Economia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Werner Baer was Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor of Economics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.
