Abstract
The paper aims to investigate the Brazilian antitrust statutes from the 1930s and 1940s. The hypothesis is that, despite the silence of relevant authors of the Brazilian economic historiography, such statutes and the institutions created by them are legal and institutional innovations from Getúlio Vargas’s first period as President (1930-1945), specifically the Estado Novo (1937-1945). Based on bibliographic research and documental analysis, the results indicated that such legislation represented an institutional innovation. The conclusion is that the legal and institutional legacy of the period also includes the competition law.
Keywords:
Antitrust; Estado Novo; History of Economic Law