
Women in Economics: Laura Carvalho on Popularizing Brazilian Economics
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The Most Well Sold Economic Book in Brazil
I had to write about brazil, which was not necessarily my topic of research at that point. And i wrote a book about exactly why did bBrazil go from the economic pomb of the two thousands and then all of a sudden were in a very deep economic crisis. The reasons for that, this is what i wrote about. And i think the book was a success because it provided an interpretation that was not necessarily in the common sense. Both in the political left and in the political right, the interpretations were either, i mean, it's all about economic policy mistakes, or it’s all about political boycot. I tryd to give a more comprehensive approach to it, to
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