Brazil’s National Alcohol Program: Technology and Development in an Authoritarian Regime

Published September 13, 2010

Brazil’s National Alcohol Program: Technology and Development in an Authoritarian Regime

How are political systems likely to shape the choices, uses, and effects of technological progress? This important new book addresses that question in a case study of Brazil’s national alcohol program, Proalcool. Proalcool’s stated goals are economic growth, and the reduction of personal regional income disparities, through the production of alcohol as a substitute for petroleum fuels used in internal combustion engines. To better understand how Brazil’s political system has shaped this technolo

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