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Article: The Crisis of Argentine Capitalism.
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- Southern Economic Journal
- Article date:
- April 1, 1992
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By Paul H. Lewis. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1990. Pp. xviii, 573. $49.95.
The central message of this long, and at times tedious, book is that the economic crisis afflicting Argentina is the product of a corporativist system that, over the years, has burdened the economy with excessive regulations, as well as misguided and self-serving policies. The author, a political scientists by background, attributes Argentina's seemingly permanent economic and political stalemate to the rejection of economic liberalism (in the nineteenth century sense) and the adoption of populist policies, especially with the rise to power of the charismatic and ...