About this book
O credito agricola em Portugal by Jaime de Magalhães Lima is a stirring late-19th-century lecture that frames agricultural credit as central to Portugal’s social and economic renewal. Delivered at the Real Associação Central da Agricultura Portugueza in 1899, Lima’s address combines practical urgency with a moral vision: that farmers and rural proprietors are essential agents of national consolidation, and that well-designed credit systems can foster social harmony, economic balance, and lasting prosperity.
Part history, part policy manifesto, this Economics/Political Economy text situates Portugal’s agrarian challenges within broader debates about modernization, rural finance, and state support for agriculture. Lima reflects on the intimate social ties of rural life, the interplay of large and small holdings, and the institutional reforms needed to make credit accessible, responsible, and productive. His argument remains relevant to students of economic history, comparative agrarian policy, and the evolution of rural banking.
Ideal for economists, historians, policymakers, and anyone curious about the roots of agricultural development, this audiobook offers a compact, historically grounded exploration of credit’s role in nation-building and rural welfare—essential listening for understanding Portugal’s economic past and enduring debates in agricultural finance.
