The management of Aldo Ferrer at the head of the Ministry of Economy and Finance of the province of Buenos Aires (1958-1960)

Abstract

This article studies the economic decisions that were taken during the administration of Aldo Ferrer, one of the most important economists of Latin American structuralist thought, at the head of the Ministry of Economy and Finance of the province of Buenos at the end of the 1950s. The vicissitudes of agrarian policy and tax reform are analyzed, as well as other specific projects promoted by the Economic Planning Board. These policies were crossed by the ideas brandished by the Radical Civic Union, the formation of Ferrer in the United Nations and by the differences that arose with respect to the economic policies of the national government. In particular, the work confronts the ideas with the policies faced and their possibilities of application in that context. In this sense, the review of that experience presents a remarkable scenario to discuss not only on the level of economic ideas —and make clarifications in that sense—, but also on the political and institutional dynamics of Argentina in those years, with the addition to focus on the province-nation relationship.