1st Edition

Mining and the State in Brazilian Development

By Gail D Triner Copyright 2011
    272 Pages
    by Routledge

    272 Pages
    by Routledge

    'Mining and the State' examines the fundamental economic institutional structure of Brazil through the prism of its mineral endowment.

    Introduction; Part I The Subsoil in Brazilian History; Chapter 1 Historical Setting; Chapter 2 Minerals, the Subsoil and Property Law; Part II The Struggle to Develop Minerals; Chapter 3 Iron and Gold in Pre-Industrial Brazil; Chapter 4 The Subsoil as Private Property; Chapter 5 Industrializing Iron Ore; Part III Understanding Brazilian Institutions and Minerals; Chapter 6 Minerals and the Formation of Economic Ideology; Chapter 7 Iron Ore as Precedent and Example; concl Conclusion;

    Biography

    Gail D Triner