Free Brazil Is the New America: How Brazil Offers Upward Mobility in a Collapsing World by James Dale Davidson

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    Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data:
    Davidson, James Dale.
    Brazil is the new America : how Brazil offers upward mobility in a collapsing world / James Dale Davidson.
    p. cm.
    Includes index.
    ISBN 978-1-118-00663-4 (cloth); ISBN 978-1-118-22175-4 (ebk);
    ISBN 978-1-118-26041-8 (ebk); ISBN 978-1-118-23556-0 (ebk)
    1. Economic development—Brazil. 2. Economic development—United States. 3. Economic forecasting—Brazil. 4. Economic forecasting—United States. 5. Brazil—Economic conditions—21st century. 6. United States—Economic conditions—21st century. 7. Brazil—Social conditions—21st century. 8. United States—Social conditions—21st century. I. Title.
    HC187.D38 2012
    330.981—dc23
    2012010364

To my Brazilian son, Arthur Leonardo DeClare Davidson

Preface
    The first decade of the twenty-first century has taught me a lesson. I now realize that I was hasty to be cocky half a lifetime ago about having been born in the United States.
    When I was a young man, the American Dream was alive and well. I took advantage of it to invent my own work as a serial entrepreneur. I have had a hand in launching and building three billion dollar-plus companies, two companies that attained a market cap of half a billion dollars or more, and about a dozen others that became worth $100 million or more. I enjoyed the adventure and the high standard of living that went with it. But I don’t see the same opportunities ahead for my children, especially my two older children who are entirely American as I was.
    By no means am I selling them short. They are both bright and energetic. They will need all the energy they can muster to succeed in the world in which they will live.
    My youngest child has better prospects.