Chambers of Commerce and Business Elites in Great Britain and Brazil in the Nineteenth Century: Some Comparisons
比较十九世纪英国和巴西的商会作为商业精英与政府之间的中介，分析它们推动法律和制度框架以促进经济扩张的共同挑战，以及国家需求、政商关系和土地精英态度的影响。
Chambers of commerce were the main pressure groups serving as intermediaries between the business elite and the government in Great Britain and Brazil in the nineteenth century. The most important problem they faced in both nations was promoting a legal and institutional framework that would facilitate economic expansion. In both nations, the critical factors affecting this task were the need of the state for the expert advice that business pressure groups could offer, the traditional relationship between business and government, and especially the attitude of a historically dominant landed elite.