The Political Economy of Argentina in the Twentieth Century

AvRoberto Cortés Conde

Inbunden, Engelska, 2008

Del 92 i serien Cambridge Latin American Studies

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In this book, Roberto Cortés Conde describes and explains the decline of the Argentine economy in the twentieth century, its evolution, and its consequences. At the beginning of the century, the economy grew at a sustained rate, a modern transport system united the country, a massive influx of immigrants populated the land, and education expanded, leading to a dramatic fall in illiteracy. However, by the second half of the century, growth not only stalled, but a dramatic reversal occurred, and the perspectives in the median and long term turned negative, and growth eventually collapsed. This work of historical analysis defines the most important problems faced by the Argentine economy. Some of these problems were fundamental, while others occurred without being properly considered, but in their entirety, Cortés Conde demonstrates how they had a deleterious effect on the country.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2008-12-22
Mått:152 x 229 x 27 mm
Vikt:770 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Cambridge Latin American Studies
Antal sidor:406
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9780521882323

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Roberto Cortés Conde is Professor Emeritus of Economy at the Universidad de San Andrés in Argentina. He is Honorary President of the International Economic History Association. He is co-editor, with Victor Bulmer-Thomas and John Coatsworth, of The Cambridge Economic History of Latin America (2006) and co-editor, with Michael D. Bordo, of Transferring Wealth and Power from the Old to the New World: Monetary and Fiscal Institutions in the 17th through the 19th Centuries (2001).

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'… this is very much the work of a skilled historian … The book's goal is to explain why Argentina failed to sustain its position as a wealthy country, which it had achieved in the first decades of the twentieth century … It will be difficult for anyone interested in Argentina's economic decline not to take this work extremely seriously …' Latin American Research Review

Innehållsförteckning

1. Period of rapid economic expansion: 1880–1914; 2. From World War I to the Great Depression of 1930; 3. From the 1930 financial crisis to World War II; 4. The political economy of Peronism; 5. A divided society: 1955–73; 6. The long decline.