The Microcomputer Industry in Brazil: The Case of a Protected High-Technology Industry

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In 1977 Brazil initiated the "market reserve policy" to protect and reserve its domestic market for its own computer manufacturing companies. The basic assumptions on which its plans rested were fatally flawed, however, and the experiment failed to a large degree. This work investigates to what extent the policy, so carefully fashioned, fell short of its target and left Brazil with expensive and poorly made products. The author also evaluates the important and influential role of Brazil's bureaucracy and military. Scholars of economic development, industrial organization, economic history, and technology should find this work valuable.

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EDUARDO LUZIO is in the Merger & Acquisition Department of Unibanco in Brazil./e He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He was born in Brazil, where he lived during most of the market reserve policy.