The "Winners" of a Sector in Crisis: The Economic Performance of Large Steel Companies, Argentina (1976-1981)
The administration of Martínez de Hoz at the head of the National Ministry of Economy, during the period 1976-1981, deployed a real strategy of aggression towards the industrial fabric as a whole. However, far from having a linear and coherent character, this strategy was framed under a highly contr...
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Centro de Estudios de Historia Económica Argentina y Latinoamericana (CEHEAL)
2013
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| Acceso en línea: | https://ojs.economicas.uba.ar/H-ind/article/view/538 https://repositoriouba.sisbi.uba.ar/gsdl/cgi-bin/library.cgi?a=d&c=hindus&d=538_oai |
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| Sumario: | The administration of Martínez de Hoz at the head of the National Ministry of Economy, during the period 1976-1981, deployed a real strategy of aggression towards the industrial fabric as a whole. However, far from having a linear and coherent character, this strategy was framed under a highly contradictory and tension-ridden liberal-corporate management. As a result, its policies have had heterogeneous effects on the different branches and industrial players affected by its measures. The steel sector was not exempt from these heterogeneities; on the contrary, despite being affected by a strong external and internal crisis, it also exhibited the consolidation of a relatively limited nucleus of large private firms that captured a series of privileged quasi-rents. In this sense, this paper aims to analyze the economic performance of the main steel companies operating in Argentina during this period, in order to provide empirical evidence to corroborate the existence, in the steel sector, of what Castellani (2006) has called privileged spheres of capital accumulation. |
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