This is the first complete economic and social history of Brazil in the modern period in any language.
Francisco Vidal Luna received his PhD in Economics in 1980 from the Universidade de São Paulo in São Paulo, Brazil, where he also was Professor of Economics until 1997. Author of some 50 articles and papers and 11 books on Brazilian economic history and the Brazilian economy, he has been an academic, a government administrator, and a banker.
Introduction; 1. The old world republic 1889-1930; 2. The Vargas period 1930-45; 3. Formative democracies and military interregnum 1945-85; 4. Consolidated democracy, 1985-2012.