A tour of the literature on stabilization plans and structural reforms in Argentina (1970-1980):

introduction of new debates in recent Argentine history

Abstract

Discussions around economic stabilization and its subsequent reformist advance have been of vital importance in the 1970s and 1980s. International crises put Latin American development models in check, cornering them in a game of cross-pressures between the changes of the capitalist system. and economic deficits at the national level. This work is part of a reflective essay proposal on the debates between economic stabilization and structural reforms between the 1970s and 1980s. With an anchor in the Argentine case, we believe that the advance of economic reformism linked to neoliberalism has important keys to contribute to the countries of the region. The profuse bibliographic wealth on the subject has been integrated and analyzed in order to shed some relevant premises and reflections. We conclude that this review accounts for how the advance of neoliberal reformism overlapped a crisis of the postwar Keynesian models, but that the tensions were among the proposals that sought stabilization with a pro-democratic reformism of adaptation to the new patterns of world economic reconfiguration and among those who pointed to one of neoliberal openness, linked to economic financialization.