O Atraso Brasileiro: Rent Seeking

Segundo Fernando Zanella, Robert Ekelund e David Laband em seu paper Monarchy, Monopoly and Mercantilism: Brazil Versus the United States in the 1800s,Public Choice (2003),116,381-398, o atraso do Brasil em relação aos EUA se deve a "specific political and economic structures to help explain the success and persistence of monopoly restrictions in Brazil and the failure of internal mercantilism in the U.S. We conclude that Brazilian institutions provided a ripe and efficient environment for rent seeking. Such conditions did not exist in the U.S., a fact that helped produce the vast difference in growth in the 1800s".