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The following article aims, through scientific research, to relate the multifaceted phenomena of corruption, its modalities (public and private), with effects on free competition, highlighting the market failures arising from it, and then the generated inefficiencies that are harmful to national development and competitiveness, corroborating to the vicious feedback of subdevelopment both in economic and social aspects of a given society. The aim is to highlight the indispensability of an integrated response in defense of the economic and social order constitutionally established by the “Economic Constitution”, through an integrated lens, regarding the study of Law and Development. The hypothetical-deductive method was used in the research, through the qualitative analysis of the constitutional law and hermeneutic, the selected bibliography and research papers, using interdisciplinary resources from the areas of Law, Political Science and Economics, being mainly a juridical approach.