O bem estar social da privatização

Abstract

This paper aims to clarify the Brazilian economic culture regarding privatizations and show the effects they have on the welfare of society, bringing authors and studies that corroborate with such a theory. Initially, with an explanatory form, it adresses government functions, market failures, and government failures. Soon after, the principles of taxation are treated so that we enter into privatizations in Brazil. Finally, the influence taht privatizations have on social welfare is adressed, adressing the effects of public investments and on this and the positive relationship between privatization and welfare. Using a documentary methodology, this monograph is structured in order to clarify how the structure of government works, its functions, where capital comes from cover its expenses, where government fails, where the market fails and how the government should act. A historical survey of estatizations and privatizations is made in order to situate the reader in the context of the relationship between privatization and well-being.