A collection of articles that Machado de Assis wrote between 1883 and 1900 about economic subjects we never thought would have caught the attention of our greatest writer. The accumulation of economic topics and occurrences during the final years of the 19th century is extraordinary: banking reform, Abolition of slavery, the Crash of the Encilhamento (a speculative scandal in the 1890s), a currency and banking crisis, seen from the point of view of a storyteller who owned public debt securities, thus making him a shareholder seeking an opposite angle of observation. This is the third volume of the series to be sponsored by Rio Bravo, whose objective is to find an original and unexpected take on economic and financial subjects by authors of undeniable genius and originality.

Technical record:

Author: Gustavo H. B. Franco

Literary Consultant: Mauro Rosso

Publisher: Regina Lemos

Proofreading: José Tedin Pinto

Graphic designer: Adriana Moreno e Victor Burton