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Cortes Conde... presents an informative and salient history of the political Economy of Argentina in the 20th Century. His book combines history, politics, and economics in an accessible, interesting manner for both students and scholars. The prose is supplemented with a wealth of statistical information that will leave any economist satisfied. The author uses regional, national, and international data to add breadth and depth to his analysis. Specifically, this volume is an excellent reader for courses in international trade, monetary theory, and banking courses... Highly recommended. - Choice The book is an excellent resource for those who wish to learn about the Argentinean economy and its main limitations during the twentieth century and it is highly recommended for any course on the economic history of Latin America. - EH.Net This ambitious economic history of Argentina covering more than a century until 1989 is the first of its kind in many years published in English... connecting segments in the book show very fine understanding of Argentine political history as well as of economic development. - The Journal of Economic History

'... this is very much the work of a skilled historian ... The book's goal is to explain why Argentina failed to sustain its position as a wealthy country, which it had achieved in the first decades of the twentieth century ... It will be difficult for anyone interested in Argentina's economic decline not to take this work extremely seriously ...' Latin American Research Review Cortes Conde ... presents an informative and salient history of the political economy of Argentina in the twentieth century. His book combines history, politics, and economics in an accessible, interesting manner for both students and scholars. The prose is supplemented with a wealth of statistical information that will leave any economist satisfied. The author uses regional, national, and international data to add breadth and depth to his analysis. Specifically, this volume is an excellent reader for courses in international trade, monetary theory, and banking courses ... Highly recommended. Choice The book is an excellent resource for those who wish to learn about the Argentinean economy and its main limitations during the twentieth century and it is highly recommended for any course on the economic history of Latin America. EH.net This ambitious economic history of Argentina covering more than a century until 1989 is the first of its kind in many years published in English ... connecting segments in the book show very fine understanding of Argentine political history as well as of economic development. The Journal of Economic History ... this is very much the work of a skilled historian ... The book's goal is to explain why Argentina failed to sustain its position as a wealthy country, which it had achieved in the first decades of the twentieth century ... It will be difficult for anyone interested in Argentina's economic decline not to take this work extremely seriously ... Latin American Research Review

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Roberto Cortés Conde is Professor Emeritus of Economy at the Universidad de San Andrés in Argentina. He is Honorary President of the International Economic History Association. He is co-editor, with Victor Bulmer-Thomas and John Coatsworth, of The Cambridge Economic History of Latin America (2006) and co-editor, with Michael D. Bordo, of Transferring Wealth and Power from the Old to the New World: Monetary and Fiscal Institutions in the 17th through the 19th Centuries (2001).

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