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Chambers of Commerce and Business Elites in Great Britain and Brazil in the Nineteenth Century: Some Comparisons

Category: Ionian History
Type: Article
Book Title: Η ασφάλιση των γαλαξειδιώτικων πλοίων
Author: Ridings Eugene
Editor: Kiraly K. Bela
Journal: Business History Review
Pages: 739-773
Issue: 4
Volume: 75
Library catalog: Wilson Library, University of Minnesota
Date: Winter 2001
Language: English

Abstract:

[739] Chambers of commerce were the main pressure groups serving as intermediaries between the business elite and the governent in Great Britain and Brazil in the nineteenth century. The most important problem they faced in both nations was promoting a legal and institutional framework that would facilitate economic expansion. In both nations, the critical factors affecting this task were the need of the state for the expert advice that business pressure groups could offer, the tradiotional relationship between business and governent and especially the attittude of a historically dominant landed elite.


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