*Harvard-MIT Workshop on the Political Economy of Development in Brazil presents Unexpected successes, unanticipated failures: Social policy from Cardoso to Lula* Presentation by* Marcus André Melo*, Yale University and Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE). He is the author of Reformas Constitucionais no Brasil Instituições Políticas e Processo Decisório, Revan. He has recently co-authored The Political Economy of Fiscal Reforms in Brazil, IADB, WP 117, 2009; and chapters in Mark Hallerberg et al eds. Who decides the budget the political economy analysis of the budget process in Latin America, DRCLAS-Harvard University Press, 2009; and E Stein and M Tommasi eds., Policy-making in Latin America: how policy shapes policy, DRCLAS-Harvard University Press, 2008. Date: *Tuesday, December 8* Time: 4 p.m. Location: Lucian Pye Conference Room, E40-496 - MIT Contact: Karina Xavier, kxavier(a)MIT.EDU Reception to follow talk. _________________ *Privatized Subsoil Rights in Brazil* Presentation by Professor *Gail Triner, *Associate Professor of History, Rutgers University. Prof. Triner is author of Banking and Economic Development: Brazil, 1889-1930 (Palgrave Press, 2000). Her research interests include the economic history of Brazil, emphasizing finance, property rights and the environment, as well as the comparative history of Latin American banking. Date: *Friday, December 11* Time: 4:00-6:00pm Location: DRCLAS Resouvce Room S216 - CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street - HARVARD Contact: Marcio Siwi, msiwi(a)fas.harvard.edu ________________ The Harvard-MIT Workshop on the Political Economy of Development in Brazil is led by Professors Aldo Musacchio (Associate Professor and Marvin Bower Fellow, Harvard Business School) and Ben Ross Schneider (Professor of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology), the new Harvard-MIT Workshop seeks to promote an ongoing interdisciplinary academic exchange among professors, students, and practitioners in the Cambridge-Boston area with speakers who are experts on the political economy of development in Brazil. <http://web.mit.edu/misti/mit-brazil.html>