Prolegomenon to Neoliberalism: The Political Economy of Populist Argentina, 1943-1976

Recent research in economic history recasts the debate on economic policy in postwar Argentina. It demonstrates that the highly partisan writings on recent economic history and neoliberal prescriptions for economic reform have relied on an incomplete and therefore distorted understanding of the policies undertaken in the decades before the neoliberal reforms. An analysis of the inner workings of the country's banking system in these years provides a new historical precision to debates on the relationship between economic variables and political instability in the postwar years.