Origens e determinantes dos desequilíbrios no Rio Grande do Sul: uma análise a partir da Teoria Institucional de Douglas North

Abstract

The Rio Grande do Sul presented along the century XX a path of private capitalist development, in comparison with other States of the country. However, your internal logic of regional development felt with the amplification of economical inequalities, providing to the State the consolidation of two areas, an industrialized — North Half — and other not — South Half. It is believed that the evolution of the regional inequalities has roots historical, and above all institutional, could be better understood by Douglass North Theory Institucionalist.