Industry and Development in Argentina: An Intellectual History, 1914-1980

This book explores the twists and turns in Argentina’s modern economic history and the debates around how to achieve a level of economic growth for its population in a world characterized by unequal economic relations between the industrialized nations of the north and the commodity producers of the south.

Marcelo Rougier is Professor of Economic History at the Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina, CONICET Principal Researcher at Instituto Interdisciplinario de Economía Política de Buenos Aires (IIEP-Baires), Director of the Centro de Estudios de Historia Económica Argentina y Latinoamericana (CEHEAL) and Co-editor of the online journal H-industri@.

Juan Odisio is Professor of Economic History at the Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina, and at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, CONICET Associate Researcher at Instituto Interdisciplinario de Economía Política de Buenos Aires (IIEP-Baires), and Co-editor of the online journals H-industri@ and História Econômica & História de Empresas (Brazil).

James Brennan is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of California, Riverside. He is the author, editor, and translator of numerous books on modern Argentine history. His most recent book is Argentina’s Missing Bones: Revisiting the History of the Dirty War.