This book provides an extremely interesting and relevant collection of essays on the economic development of Argentina since the late nineteenth century. It represents an outstanding edited compilation that brings together recent research presented by leading specialists at a conference on the New Economic History of Argentina, organized by the editors in Bariloche, Argentina, in November 2000.
The advent of another economic crisis in 2001, which became the most severe of all time, forced a controversial historiographic issue to the forefront once again: what has gone wrong with Argentina? Scholars and policymakers have been struck by the Argentine puzzle: to understand the reasons, causes, or factors that may explain how a country that was considered a developed economy by the early twentieth century has experienced such a disappointing economic performance since. Thus, Argentina is considered a unique case. It has nothing in common with those less-developed countries that have always...
