Guido di Tella

Introduction: the Political Economy of Argentina, 1946–83

The essays and comments contained in this volume were presented at the Conference on the Political Economy of Argentina, 1946–83, held in Toledo, Spain, in May 1984 under the auspices of the Fundacion Ortega y Gasset. In a sense, this Conference continued a previous one held in Oxford in 1981,1 which covered both Argentina’s ascendancy from the 1880s to the 1920s and the serious vacillations experienced since then.

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.

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.

Domingo F. Cavallo

Born in July 1946, Dr Cavallo holds a doctorate in economics from the University of Cordoba and a Ph.D. (Econ.) from Harvard University. After occupying several political positions in Cordoba and Buenos Aires, in 1982 he was appointed President of Argentina’s Central Bank.

Jose Maria Dagnino Pastore

Born in Buenos Aires in November 1933, Dr Dagnino Pastore holds a doctorate in economics from La Plata University, a M.A. (Econ.) from the University of California and a Ph.D. (Econ.) from Harvard University.