Public utilities services in Brazil: a paradox between two models
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https://doi.org/10.7213/revdireconsoc.v14i3.29570Keywords:
public utilities services; regulation; railways; energy; economic thought.Abstract
This article analyzes the relationship between the economy and the law in the construction of regulatory models of public services in Brazil, also using the study of two national experiences: the rail sector and the electricity sector. It is not exactly a history of the regulation of public services, but a historical and economic analysis of the problem of the construction of models of provision that would fit each stage of the construction of the Brazilian State. There is a kind of paradox of a State that opts for a given model of provision while the legislation in force moves in the opposite direction. Open options, disputes, silenced voices, specific circumstances are elements that a long-term analysis tends not to address. However, the proposal presented here for the periodization of the models of provision of public services in Brazil is useful as it allows to observe the paradox, that is the object of this article.
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