The Crisis of Abolition: Monetary Reform and Instability During the Republican Transition in Brazil
ABSTRACT
This conference examined some of the key variables of the financial crisis that followed the abolition of slavery in Brazil, an institutional break that constituted the moment of triumph and tragedy of classical liberalism in Brazil.
READING LIST
Conference Readings
Barcelos, Ramiro. “Discurso no Senado Federal 14 de janeiro de 1892, contra Ruy Barbosa.” Jornal do Commercio (1892): 1-10.
Caldeira, Jorge. História da Riqueza no Brasil. Rio de Janeiro: Estação Brasil, 2017.
Carvalho Lima, Jose. Narrativas Militares – a Revolução do Rio Grande do Sul. Brasil: Edigal, 2009.
Franco, Gustavo Henrique Barroso. Reforma Monetária e instabilidade durante a transição republicana. Rio de Janeiro: BNDES, 1983.
Hume, David. Ensaios Morais, Politicos e Literarios. Rio de Janeiro: Liberty Classics, 2004.
Mundell, Robert and Marcus Fleming. “Mundell-Fleming model.” Wikipedia.org. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=373659245 (January 16, 2017).
Musacchio, Aldo. Political Institutions and Financial Development. Edited by Stephen Haber, Douglass C. North, and Barry R. Weingast. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2008.
Nabuco, Joaquim. O Abolicionismo. Petrópolis: Editora Vozes, Petrópolis/RJ, 2012.
Prado, Eduardo. Fastos da Ditadura Militar no Brasil. Rio de Janeiro: eBookLibris, 1890.
Schulz, John. The Financial Crisis of Abolition. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008.