michael
Fri, 15 Sep 2000 09:41:52 -0700
How much of that success was due to the terms of trade at the time? > > >I don't pretend to know much about Peron's policies. He had a basically > >agricultural economy... > > In 1913 Buenos Aires is 13th in the world in telephones per capita. > In 1929 Argentina is fifth in the world in automobiles per capita. > Argentinian manufacturing output per capita on the eve of World War > II was twice that of Italy, and ahead of France. > > As I said quite a while ago, Argentina was a *first* *world* > country--like Canada, Austrlia, or New Zealand--up until the 1950s. > Arguments that development possibilites were constrained by relative > backwardness may work elsewhere: they don't make *any* sense for > Argentina. > > Brad DeLong > -- > Professor J. Bradford DeLong > Department of Economics, #3880 > University of California at Berkeley > Berkeley, CA 94720-3880 > (510) 643-4027; (925) 283-2709 voice > (510) 642-6615; (925) 283-3897 fax > http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/ > > -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]