Cairu e o “Comércio Franco e Legítimo”

Abstract

As a publicist and jurist who defended the adequacy of comercial law and economic policy to the new times of industrialism, Cairu made a substantial contribution to the understanding of the challenges and obstacles posed to the Brazilian economy in the early nineteenth century, at the endo f the colonial period.

Keywords

• vcisconde de cairu;
• economic liberalism
• colonial trade
• commercial law