Frontiers and Economic Institutions in Brazil: an approach focused on the new institutional economics | Fronteiras e Instituições Econômicas no Brasil: uma abordagem centrada no novo institucionalismo econômico

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Título
Frontiers and Economic Institutions in Brazil: an approach focused on the new institutional economics | Fronteiras e Instituições Econômicas no Brasil: uma abordagem centrada no novo institucionalismo econômico
Revista Brasileira de Estudos Urbanos e Regionais
UFPA
Autor
André Cutrim Carvalho
Assunto
Brasil
capital
economia
fronteira
instituição
Abstract
The present article seeks to discuss the meaning (s) of frontiers in Brazil and the role of institutions in the process of economic development through the new institutional economics. Any pattern of collective behavior characterizes an institution, and as such determines the “rules of the game”. The frontier represents a socio-economic relationship of production because the structure of society in building a frontier is dominated (in)directly by capital. In Brazil, the movement to occupy land on the frontier does not usually occur through contingent smallholders, but rather through a mixture of different social segments, such as: migrants, “landless” males, farmers and entrepreneurs, all seeking land to occupy, to produce and to speculate. The main conclusion is that a developed institutional system may help to promote economic development by structuring the surrounding environment and stimulating the process of cooperation, innovation and learning in the frontier regions of Brazil.
volume
19
issue
1
Páginas
125
Date
2017
título curto
RBEUR
Frontiers and Economic Institutions in Brazil
Língua
en
doi
10.22296/2317-1529.2017v19n1p125
issn
2317-1529
Rights
Direitos autorais 2017 Revista Brasileira de Estudos Urbanos e Regionais