In order to analyze Brazil's recent accumulation of capital in the light of its continued dependence, Peter Evans focuses on the relationships among multinational corporations, local private entrepreneurs, and state-owned enterprises that have developed in Brazil over the last decade. He argues...

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations and Acronyms -- 1. States and Industrial Transformation -- 2. A Comparative Institutional Approach -- 3. States -- 4. Roles and Sectors -- 5. Promotion and Policing -- 6. State Firms and High-Tech Husbandry --...

In recent years, debate on the state's economic role has too often devolved into diatribes against intervention. Peter Evans questions such simplistic views, offering a new vision of why state involvement works in some cases and produces disasters in others. To illustrate, he looks at how state...

By focusing on the concrete history of attempts by the two major newly industrialized countries (NICs) - Brazil and South Korea - to promote indigenous innovation in the computer industry, the paper explores the interaction of state structures and industrial organization in shaping developmental...