Tropical Capitalism - by M Eakin

Book Synopsis

Tropical Capitalism traces the rise of Brazil's second largest industrial center, a planned city created in the 1890s as the capital of Minas Gerais, the nation's second most populous state. Marshall Eakin offers the industrialization of Belo Horizonte as an example of an extreme form of the pattern of Brazilian industrialization - a variation of capitalism characterized by state intervention, clientelism, family networks, and the lack of tehcnological innovation. At the core of the analysis are the webs of power formed by politicians, technocrats, and entrepreneurs who drove forward the process of industrialization. The first comprehensive analysis of Belo Horizonte, this book explores industrialization in Latin America, and looks beneath the larger, national economy to dissect a city and region.

Review Quotes

'Tropical Capitalism is an example of the quality scholarship one has come to expect of Marshall Eakin.' - Douglas Cole Libby, Enterprise & Society

'...good scholarship that addresses useful questions...' - EH.Net

About the Author

MARSHALL C. EAKIN is Professor of History at Vanderbilt University.