Carlos Rodríguez Braun

Argentina, 1946-83 : the economic ministers speak

Papers by: Alfredo Gomez Morales Rogelio Frigerio Alvaro Alsogaray Roberto T. Alemann Carlos Garcia Tudero Adalbert Krieger Vasena Jose Maria Dagnino Pastore Aldo Ferrer Jorge Wehbe Carlos Raul Gabriel Leyba Alfredo Gomez Morales Guido di Tella Jose Alfredo Martinez de Hoz Lorenzo Juan Sigaut Domingo F. Cavallo Jorge Wehbe.

Money and Contract in The Merchant of Venice

The fortunes and misfortunes of Shylock and Antonio are pervaded with economic and legal ideas. Both characters tend to overlap and confuse in several dimensions–the most celebrated one is to believe that the Jew is the merchant–and are alternatively victim and victimizer. The analysis of the play focusing in money and contract, economics and the law, market and morality, allows us to delve into the nuances of one of the most engaging characters in the history of literature and to ponder the classical liberal message of justice and charity.The fortunes and misfortunes of Shylock and Antonio are pervaded with economic and legal ideas. Both characters tend to overlap and confuse in several dimensionsthe most celebrated one is to believe that the Jew is the merchantand are alternatively victim and victimizer. The analysis of the play focusing in money and contract, economics and the law, market and morality, allows us to delve into the nuances of one of the most engaging characters in the history of literature and to ponder the classical liberal message of justice and charity.

Las curvas de oferta y demanda de Fleeming Jenkin

Investigacion sobre algunas aportaciones analiticas de Fleeming Jenkin (1833-1885), el primer britanico que publico diagramas de oferta y demanda y que los discutio explicitamente como funciones.

Bentham on Spanish Protectionism

In 1821, John Bowring published a manuscript of Benthams under the title of Observations on the restrictive and prohibitory commercial system: especially with a reference to the Decrep of the Spanish Cortes of July 1820. In all probability this text was originally conceived as an appendix to a book that Bentham never published, to Wit Rid Yourselves of Ultramarina, the commentary on Spanish colonization. The 1821 publisned text has been reprinted by W. Stark in the third volume of Jeremy Benthams Economic With some corrections of obvious misprints, but without the benefit of the mauscript. Stark was very dismissive of this work, which he thought demonstrated how barren Benthams economic thought had become. Stark believed thad Bentham was too orthodox in attacking Spanish protectionism when, Stark said, Spain was a case fit for an educational tariff, in the fashion proposed by list. However, many economists today think that few things are so harmful for an underdevelooped country as a tariff, eduational or not (except when it is low rated, revenue raising and accompanied by an equivalent domestic excise tax).

José Alfredo Martínez de Hoz

Mr Martinez de Hoz was born in Buenos Aires in August, 1925 and holds a doctorate in law from the University of Buenos Aires.

Carlos Raúl Gabriel Leyba

Our ethics was based on the values of shared growth and the idea of endogenous development, which required participation and a new relationship with the rest of the world; ours was therefore the ethics of progress.

Alfredo Gómez Morales

Mr Gomez Morales was born in Buenos Aires in March 1908 and studied economics at the University of Buenos Aires. In the first Peron Administration (1946–55) he was Director of the General Tax Bureau, Under-Secretary of Commerce, President of the Central Bank and Minister of Finance. During the second Peron Administration he was again appointed President of the Central Bank and later Minister of Economy, and was also Plenipotentiary Minister and Ambassador.

Carlos García Tudero

Mr Garcia Tudero studied economics at the University of Buenos Aires, where at present he teaches international economics. He was Secretary of Finance in the Cabinet of President Arturo Illia, and head of the foreign debt negotiation commission in the same period.

Guido di Tella

Guido Jose Mario di Tella was born in Argentina in 1931. He graduated as an engineer at the University of Buenos Aires and holds a PhD (Econ.) from MIT. He has been President of the National Arts Fund and Secretary of Economic Co-Ordination and Programming A former MP in Buenos Aires, he is at present Argentina’s Ambassador in Washington.

Adalbert Krieger Vasena

Dr Krieger Vasena holds a doctorate in economics from the university of his home town, Buenos Aires. A counsellor of the Buenos Aires Stock Exchange and the Latinamerican Economic Research Foundation (FIEL, Fundacion de Investigaciones Economicas Latinoamericanas), he has been Minister of Finance and later of Economy and Finance.