At the end of World War II, several Latin American countries seemed to be ready for industrialization and self-sustaining economic growth. Instead, they found that they had exchanged old forms of political and economic dependence for a new kind of dependency on the international capitalism of multinational corporations. In the much-acclaimed original Spanish edition (Dependencia y Desarrollo en América Latina) and now in the expanded and revised English version, Cardoso and Faletto offer a sophisticated analysis of the economic development of Latin America. The economic dependency of Latin America stems not merely from the domination of the world market over internal national and “enclave” economies, but also from the much more complex interact ion of economic drives, political structures, social movements, and historically conditioned alliances. While heeding the unique histories of individual nations, the authors discern four general stages in Latin America's economic development: the early outward expansion of newly independent nations, the political emergence of the middle sector, the formation of internal markets in response to population growth, and the new dependence on international markets. In a postscript for this edition, Cardoso and Faletto examine the political, social and economic changes of the past ten years in light of their original hypotheses.

Dependency and Development in Latin America

Business & Money

Fernando Henrique Cardoso

Faletto Enzo

Economics

University of California Press

Fernando Henrique Cardoso received a phone call in the middle of the night asking him to be the new Finance Minister of Brazil. As he put the phone down and stared into the darkness of his hotel room, he feared he'd been handed a political death sentence. The year was 1993, and he would be responsible for an economy that had had seven different currencies in the previous eight years to cope with inflation that had run at 3000 percent a year. Brazil had a habit of chewing up finance ministers with the ferocity of an Amazon piranha.
 This was just one of the turns in a largely unscripted and sometimes unwanted political career. In exile during the harshest period of the junta that ruled Brazil for twenty years, Cardoso started his political life with a tentative run for the Federal Senate in 1978. Within fifteen years, and despite himself, this former sociologist was running the country.
 And what a country! Brazil, it is often said, is on the edge of modernity, striding with one foot in mid-air towards the future, the other still rooted deep in a traditional past. It is a land of sophisticated music and brutal gold-digging, of the next global superpower and the last old-time coffee plantations. It is gloriously ungovernable, irrepressibly attractive, and home to the family, friends and extraordinary life of Fernando Henrique Cardoso. This is his story and his love song to his country.

The Accidental President of Brazil: A Memoir

Biographies & Memoirs

BRIAN WINTER

Historical

PublicAffairs

A SOMA E O RESTO: UM OLHAR SOBRE A VIDA AOS 80 ANOS e uma oportunidade para o leitor conhecer a visao de Fernando Henrique Cardoso sobre as incriveis mudancas pelas quais passam o Brasil e o mundo.E tambem a oportunidade de ouvir a voz interior de Fernando Henrique, rememorando raizes, influencias e pontos de virada de sua trajetoria, e refletindo sobre questoes para as quais ninguem tem resposta, como o sentido da vida, a espiritualidade e o misterio, a morte.Entre memoria e realidade, insight e introspeccao, o livro reconstitui mais de dez horas de conversas gravadas nas semanas que antecederam a celebracao de seu aniversario de 80 anos, em 19 de junho de 2011.A historia esta presente bem como as sociedades em movimento e os desafios de um mundo novo que teima em emergir em contraponto ao velho. Mas comparecem tambem os familiares, os grandes professores, os amigos, os muitos encontros que teve pela vida afora.

Soma e O Resto: Um Olhar Sobre A Vida Aos 80 Anos (Em Portugues do Brasil)

Civilização Brasileira

Em 1993, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, entao ministro da Fazenda, herdou um pais em frangalhos. A inflacao chegava a inacreditaveis 3.000%, um presidente tinha recentemente sofrido impeachment por corrupcao e comecavam a circular rumores de outro golpe militar. Muitos consideravam o Brasil um pais ingovernavel. Mas, em uma tumultuada decada como ministro da Fazenda e em seguida presidente, FHC provou que estavam errados. Assumiu a presidencia de uma jovem democracia com uma economia instavel e transformou o Brasil em uma nacao madura e prospera, respeitada em todo o mundo. Estas memorias contam a historia de sua notavel lideranca como presidente, de sua fascinante vida pessoal, de seus extraordinarios encontros com outras personalidades historicas e, talvez de maneira particularmente comovedora, de seu amor da vida inteira pelo Brasil.

O Improvavel Presidente do Brasil: Recordacoes (Em Portugues do Brasil)

CIVILIZACAO BRASILEIRA - GRUPO RECORD

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