The Argentine: From economic growth to economic retardation (1950s - 1980s) ; A review of the economic and social history literature

  • By the 1920s per capita incomes in Argentina were high by European and Latin American standards and gaining relative to salaries and wages in other areas of recent settlement like Australia. During the inter-war decades, the Argentine was easily the most prosperous economy in South America - accounting for around half Continental output and overseas trade - and by far the most industrialised. This position was maintained for much of the second quarter of the twentieth Century. Latter, by the 1960s, negative contrasts were being made with the course and pace of development in neighbouring republics and other economies. Argentinians were even less confident about their prosperity and international position by the 1980s. This paper examines the historical growth record and surveys the historiography in search of an explanation for the apparent inability to effect a smooth transition from rapid growth and institutional change at the end of the nineteenth Century to a developed polity andBy the 1920s per capita incomes in Argentina were high by European and Latin American standards and gaining relative to salaries and wages in other areas of recent settlement like Australia. During the inter-war decades, the Argentine was easily the most prosperous economy in South America - accounting for around half Continental output and overseas trade - and by far the most industrialised. This position was maintained for much of the second quarter of the twentieth Century. Latter, by the 1960s, negative contrasts were being made with the course and pace of development in neighbouring republics and other economies. Argentinians were even less confident about their prosperity and international position by the 1980s. This paper examines the historical growth record and surveys the historiography in search of an explanation for the apparent inability to effect a smooth transition from rapid growth and institutional change at the end of the nineteenth Century to a developed polity and economy during the second half of the twentieth. The paper begins by displaying output and income data for the last one hundred years or so and then schools the literature and reviews principal contributions to an analysis of the 'Argentinian economic involution'.show moreshow less

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Author:Colin M. Lewis
URN:urn:nbn:de:bvb:384-opus4-29469
Frontdoor URLhttps://opus.bibliothek.uni-augsburg.de/opus4/2946
ISSN:0946-5030OPAC
Series (Serial Number):Mesa Redonda / Neue Folge (4)
Publisher:Universität Augsburg, Institut für Spanien-, Portugal- und Lateinamerika-Studien (ISLA)
Place of publication:Augsburg
Type:Book
Language:English
Year of first Publication:1996
Publishing Institution:Universität Augsburg
Release Date:2015/01/19
GND-Keyword:Argentinien; Wirtschaftsentwicklung; Geschichte 1850-1980; Literaturbericht; Wirtschaft
Institutes:Fakultätsübergreifende Institute und Einrichtungen
Fakultätsübergreifende Institute und Einrichtungen / Institut für Spanien-, Portugal- und Lateinamerika-Studien
Dewey Decimal Classification:3 Sozialwissenschaften / 33 Wirtschaft / 330 Wirtschaft
Licence (German):Deutsches Urheberrecht