This innovative study compares the history of economic ideas and ideologies in Rumania and Brazil-and more broadly, those in East Central Europe and Latin America-in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

This innovative study compares the history of economic ideas and ideologies in Rumania and Brazil-and more broadly, those in East Central Europe and Latin America-in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

This unprecedented collection combines economic, political, and intellectual history in its analysis of economic liberalism in Latin America. The volume demonstrates the unique and varied features of Latin American liberalism from its formative period up to 1940 and discusses its relation to state formation.