Abstract

Economic Law has an extremely important role in society. It structures the Economic Order responsible for the rules for the production of wealth and its respective distribution, so it must have strong institutions to ensure a greater participation of citizens in growth –thus heading towards development– or centralise the power of such political-economic institutions to minimise the distribution and access to property to a minority, thus heading towards stagnation. Property as a juridical institution and free initiative as its exploring activity have a special meaning in this axiological structure and its strengthening towards development, which we outline in this paper.