Ideologia e prática do planejamento durante o estado novo

The Electricity Policy Debate in Brazil’s Economic Epistemic Community: the 1945-1964 Period

“…In 1933, the government created the Water Service, and Decree-Law 23501 extinguished the golden clause, establishing that contractual reviews should respect the principle of cost of service in tariff determination (Schlesinger, 1954;Souza, 1936;Vieira, 2007). Furthermore, the 1934 Constitution, through article 119, established that the industrial use of mines, mineral deposits, and water sites would depend on federal authorization and that concessions would only be granted to Brazilian companies or those established in Brazil (Abreu, 1999;Ianni, 1971). Also in 1934, the Code of Waters implemented the criteria of historical cost for tariff fixation at a maximum 10% profit rate (CMBEU, 1954;Melo;Araújo, 1994).…”

“…He deems the state's intervention inevitable due to the scarcity of the country's factors of production and because the private domestic sector lacks the capital, technology, and managerial capacity. Therefore, economic development requires modern planning techniques and policy instruments (Ianni, 1971;Lima, 1976a). For Simonsen, economic planning is a technique to anchor private entrepreneurs' expectations, creating a secure investment environment 2010a).…”

“…The Commission favored the participation of FDI in national development, which it regarded as fundamental, alongside a proactive export-promotion policy, to overcome the county's balance of payments problems (Klüger, 2014;Sola, 1998). According to Ianni (1971), the policy view that it was fundamental to create institutional conditions for the free entry and exit of FDI had been clearly formulated in all the Commission's recommendations and analyses. Thus, in its fund destination policy, the Commission foresaw that loans should be handed out to preserve foreign utilities' market power and investment capacity (Bastos, 2006).…”