>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
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