Economic Development and the Legal Foundations of Regulation in Brazil

F. de Castro Marcus ()
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F. de Castro Marcus: Universidade de Brasilia, Campus Universitário Darcy Ribeiro, S/N – Asa Norte Brasília – DF, 70910-900, Brazil

The Law and Development Review, 2013, vol. 6, issue 1, 61-115

Abstract: The paper describes the evolution of legal ideas underlying authoritative discourse used as grounds for changes in economic policy in Brazil. It examines the role of legal ideas in the shaping of policy since the rise of enlarged administrative power in the nineteenth century to the emergence of the developmentalist state in the 1930s, to pro-market reforms of the mid-1990s and early twenty-first century. A description of the contrasts between three major clusters of legal ideas is offered, covering: imported French-style legal doctrinalism in the “classical liberal” era (1850–1930), changes introduced by the administrative law of the “old developmentalism” (1930–1980), and imported Anglo-Saxon legal and economic concepts of the pro-market reforms phase (1990–2000).

Keywords: Brazil; administrative law; development; regulation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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