Un-Developing the Amazon (and the Rest of Brazil): Reversing Aluminum-Based Development in Brazil

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Abstract

This paper analyzes the rapid development of the Brazilian aluminum industry and the subsequent deindustrialization of its most technologically advanced and capital-intensive processing stage. The paper argues that the interaction of five phases of globalization over the last century and a half with the strategies of aluminum firms and state development strategies explains this dramatic rise and decline.

Author

• Paul S. Ciccantell, Western Michigan University