Brazil
A commodity-levered economy with a chronically high cost of capital, an activist state bank and a strong domestic consumer franchise; the serious English-language business literature is thinner than the country's size warrants.
9 books
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- BrazillionairesAlex Cuadros, 2016
- Brazil: The Troubled Rise of a Global PowerMichael Reid, 2014
- Dream BigCristiane Correa, 2013
Books 9
Michael Reid · 2007 · The Economist's survey of why Latin America keeps underperforming.
T2 Dream Big
Cristiane Correa · 2013 · 3G Capital's meritocracy-and-zero-based-budgeting playbook, from AmBev to Heinz.
Michael Reid · 2014 · The clearest account of Brazil's political economy and its ceilings.
Alex Cuadros · 2016 · Eike Batista and the plutocracy: how Brazilian fortunes are made and unmade.
Riordan Roett · 2010 · Institutional history of the stabilisation that made the commodity boom possible.
Larry Rohter · 2012 · The commodity-boom decade and the institutions underneath it.
T3 The 3G Way
Francisco Souza Homem de Mello · 2014 · The Lemann-Telles-Sicupira management system, written for operators.
Lilia M. Schwarcz, Heloisa M. Starling · 2015 · Long-run history explaining the inequality and clientelism investors meet.
Jorge Pontes, Marcio Anselmo · 2022 · Insider: two federal police delegates on the Lava Jato investigation.