The rise Brazil since the 1970s was not engineered by economists of international institution Brazilian policymakers on how to design better policies or avoid market failures. It was not achieved with injections of foreign aid. It was not the natural outcome of modernization. Rather, it was the consequence of divers groups of people courageously building inclusive institutions. Eventually these led to more inclusive economic institutions. But the Brazilian transformations, like that of England in the seventeenth century, began with the creation of inclusive political institutions. But how can society build inclusive political institutions?