BRAZIL

INTERVENTIONIST OR LIBERAL STATE?

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to analyze the path that Brazil has undergone, from when it was a colony of Portugal, to the economic model adopted today, in the context of the Federal Constitution of 1988. In this sense, it will be verified if the policies adopted are inclined to liberalism or interventionism. The study also investigates how raw materials, sugar cane and coffee placed Brazil in contact with the international market, both pre and post-republic. In a crescendo, the work also contemplates some economic policies adopted by Getúlio Vargas, from the decade of 1930, until the military governments in the following years. It will therefore examine the policies adopted by the aforementioned military governments, which caused Brazil to record economic numbers, the so-called “economic miracle”. Finally, it will be exposed how the current Brazilian Constitution, in post- re-democratization, has designed the current brazilian economic model. For that, the theoretical-bibliographic method was used, through bibliographical and legal research, without forgetting scientific articles that deal with the topics discussed. The approach of the case is inserted in a qualitative research, since it analyzes the brazilian liberal or interventionist trajectory, from Brazil-Colony to contemporaneity.