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This book explores the twists and turns in Argentina's modern economic history and the debates around how to achieve a level of economic growth for its population in a world characterized by unequal economic relations between the industrialized nations of the north and the commodity producers of the south.
List of contents
Introduction - Why a History of Ideas on Industry? 1. Post Bellum. The Beginnings of 'Industrialism' and the
Revista de Economía Argentina (1914-1930) 2. Post Crisis: The Construction of a Consensus: State Intervention and Industrialization (1930-1940) 3. In bello. Wartime Alternatives (1940-1945) 4. Post Bellum. The Beginnings of Industrial Policy and Postwar Dilemmas (1945-1950) 5. Foreign Capital as a Response to External Constraints (1950-1962) 6. The Renewed Heyday of the Industrial Debate (1962-1965) 7. Consolidation of the "Industrial-Export" Consensus (1965-1969) 8. From Dependency to Peronist Nationalism (1970-1975) 9.
Alea iacta est. The End of the Industrial Consensus (1975-1980)
About the author
Marcelo Rougier is Professor of Economic History at the Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina, CONICET Principal Researcher at Instituto Interdisciplinario de Economía Política de Buenos Aires (IIEP-Baires), Director of the Centro de Estudios de Historia Económica Argentina y Latinoamericana (CEHEAL) and Co-editor of the online journal
H-industri@.Juan Odisio is Professor of Economic History at the Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina, and at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, CONICET Associate Researcher at Instituto Interdisciplinario de Economía Política de Buenos Aires (IIEP-Baires), and Co-editor of the online journals
H-industri@ and
História Econômica & História de Empresas (Brazil).
James Brennan is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of California, Riverside. He is the author, editor, and translator of numerous books on modern Argentine history. His most recent book is
Argentina's Missing Bones: Revisiting the History of the Dirty War.
Summary
This book explores the twists and turns in Argentina’s modern economic history and the debates around how to achieve a level of economic growth for its population in a world characterized by unequal economic relations between the industrialized nations of the north and the commodity producers of the south.
