O instituto do açúcar e do álcool : os usineiros e a busca de renda.

Abstract

This study analyzed the Institute of the Sugar and of the Alcohol – IAA – through the approach of the Economic Theory of Rent-seeking. This theme is in quarrel in Economic Science from its first theoreticians. At major or minor degree, the rent-seeking always was present into all societies. Under the most varied forms, until today persist practices that seek to assure a return to a particular activity above to what it might achieve in conditions of a free market and the case of IAA is incased perfectly inside of the described picture for the Economic Theory of Rent-seeking. The study begins with the presentation of the relevant concept of rentseeking and of the motivation that led to the analysis of the performance of the IAA, following with the revision of the classic contributions to the Economic Theory of Rent-seeking. In the sequence, the performance of the IAA in the defense of the interests of the usineiros is analyzed, with the exhibition of the reasons that had taken to its creation and the several support mechanisms to the sector. The fourth chapter is dedicated to the characterization of the domestic and external markets of sugar in the decades of 1970, 1980 and 1990 and to the analysis fo the behavior of the sector after the extinguishing of the IAA. In the fifth chapter are presented the econometrical studies until the moment carried through on the domestic market and the effected econometrical procedures. The decurrent costs of the intervention of the IAA in the Brazilian market of sugar are presented in the sixth chapter and, finishing the study, it is concluded that the largest ones favored with the performance of the IAA had been the usineiros, to the expenseses of small individual contribution of the consumers of sugar in the Brazilian domestic market.