This paper relies on the logic of the fishing market in Pernambuco to show that it is not necessary neither to bear on irrationality of agents nor to disregard the inner market incentives to understand the recent shortcomings faced by the fishing industry in this State. It is argued that such an...

This paper discuss the theoretical background of the ideas which support clustering policies. It is argued that in spite of having been fostered under ideological hegemony of liberal ideas, the clustering policies framework does not rely strictly on this ideology. It also draws some conceptions...