'Mining and the State' examines the fundamental economic institutional structure of Brazil through the prism of its mineral endowment.

Gail D Triner

Introduction; Part I The Subsoil in Brazilian History; Chapter 1 Historical Setting; Chapter 2 Minerals, the Subsoil and Property Law; Part II The Struggle to Develop Minerals; Chapter 3 Iron and Gold in Pre-Industrial Brazil; Chapter 4 The Subsoil as Private Property; Chapter 5 Industrializing Iron Ore; Part III Understanding Brazilian Institutions and Minerals; Chapter 6 Minerals and the Formation of Economic Ideology; Chapter 7 Iron Ore as Precedent and Example; concl Conclusion;