Webinar tomorrow - Brazilian Economic History

News posted in Economic History, September 30th 2018

Hello everyone

I would like to invite you again to our first webinar: "The Brazilian economic formation from a historical panorama"
We will introduce some basic information about the Brazilian economic formation, especially to who wants to have a first contact with the subject. It will help interested people to understand the next webinars discussions, that will be about more specific questions.

Start: October 1, 2018, 10:30

Estimated duration: 50 minutes

Timezone: the time displayed here is in your local timezone (America/Sao_Paulo)

Best,

Renata and Paulo

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