Carlos Federico Díaz Alejandro
Essays on the Economic History of the Argentine Republic.
Yale University Press, 1970. First edition. 0300011938 xvi/549 pages.
Volume, measuring approximately 6.75" x 9.75", light green cloth, with gilt-lettered white spine labels. Book is in fine condition. Price-clipped dust jacket displays light shelfwear. This work offers numerous tables within text and contains a staistical appendix at rear of volume (pages 395-549).  Jacket is preserved in paper-backed mylar cover.
"The economic development of Argentina since 1860 is the subject of this new volume sponsored by the Yale Economic Growth Center. Carlos Díaz Alejandro both summarizes post-1860 Argentine economic history and investigates in greater depth some selected features of that history. He presents highlights of the remarkable pre-1930 economic expansion, emphasizing the integration of Argentine markets for goods and factors of production with those of the international economy, and he then discusses the post-1930 period, which has been characterized by low and irregular per capita growth, stagnation and decline in export quantum, and very different performance of the various sectors of the economy. Particular problems analyzed in greater detail are the performance of the rural and industrial sectors of the economy, tariff history during the period 1910 to 1940, the paradox of apparently high investment rates, and low growth since World War II and the stop-go cycles in recent years, as well as the sources and mechanics of Argentine inflation."