This work explores the conflict in the international sphere in the interwar period regarding the exploitation of the large iron ore reserves in the central region of the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, along with some of their implications. The literature that covers the debate about the...

The second coffee valorization was atypical among other valorization operations of the First Republic. The context in which it was undertaken, marked by the First World War and its repercussions on international trade and financial markets, forced the support of coffee prices to be financed with...

The debate over the Brazilian national steel-making problem took shape in the end of the 1900 decade and lasted until 1941, with the creation, by the Brazilian federal government, of the Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional (CSN – National Steel Company) to build and exploit the Volta Redonda steel...

Despite the existence of several attempts to produce iron locally not only along the colonial period but also along the Empire, for different reasons these endeavors failed, each in its own time, and the Brazilian steel-making entered the 20th century with very little practical expression....

In February 1931, Getúlio Vargas delivered a well known speech in Belo Horizonte and made then one of his most important public interventions in the Brazilian steel-making debate. This speech made fortune in the historiography, above all for its incisive statement in favor of a national...

This paper discusses Herbert A. Simon’s conception of rationality in two of its principal general definitions: bounded rationality and procedural rationality. It argues that the latter is the one that better synthesizes the author’s view about rational behavior and that the former fills...

Portuguese Abstract: Apesar da existência de diversas tentativas de produzir ferro localmente tanto no período colonial quanto durante o Império, por motivos vários tais iniciativas, cada uma a seu tempo, malograram e a siderurgia brasileira ingressou no século XX com muito pouca expressão...

Portuguese Abstract: Em fevereiro de 1931, Getúlio Vargas proferiu em Belo Horizonte um conhecido discurso e fez então uma de suas mais importantes intervenções públicas no debate siderúrgico. Esse discurso fez fortuna na historiografia, sobretudo pela sua manifestação incisiva em favor...