economy

G. Di Telia and M. Zymelman, Las etapas del desarrollo economico argentino (Buenos Aires, 1967), is a general work inspired by W. W. Rostow’s stages of growth theory. Aldo Ferrer, The Argentine Economy (Berkeley, 1967), first published in Spanish in 1964, is a less factual, much more interpretive account that reflects views on development and dependency typical of the late 1950s and early 1960s. Ferrer’s Crisis y alternativas de la política económica (Buenos Aires, 1977) brings the analysis up to the late 1970s. Carlos Díaz Alejandro, Essays on the Economic History of the Argentine Republic (New Haven, Conn., 1970), is a collection of excellent economic analyses of different aspects of Argentine history that has been very influential. Laura Randall, An Economic History of Argentina in the Twentieth Century (New York, 1978), tries to interpret Argentina’s development as a succession of rather clear-cut economic models; some historians have found it unconvincing. R. Mallon and J. V. Sourruoille, Economic Policy in a Conflictive Society: The Argentine Case (Cambridge, Mass., 1975), explores economic problems, particularly in the mid-1960s, without excluding political variables.

D. Rock, Argentina, 1516–1987: From Spanish Colonization to Alfonsín (Berkeley, 1987), is a comprehensive history that reveals great economic insight; it is the best introduction to the history of Argentina in this period. Gary Wynia, Argentina in the Post-War Era: Politics and Economic Policy Making in a Divided Society (Albuquerque, N.Mex., 1978), concentrates on decision making in the period from 1946 to 1976. Two general essays discuss the main issues in the economic history of the period: G. Di Telia, ‘Controversias económicas en la Argentina, 1930–1970’, in J. Fogarty, E. Gallo and H. Diéguez (eds.), Argentina y Australia (Buenos Aires, 1979); and C. Díaz Alejandro, ‘No less than one hundred years of Argentine economic history plus some comparisons’, in G. Ranis, R. L. West, M. W. Leiserson and C. Taft Morris (eds.), Comparative Development Perspectives: Essays in Honor of Lloyd G. Reynolds (Boulder, Colo., 1984).