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The Discreet Charm of Neoliberalism

The Paradox of Argentine Business Support of Market Reforms

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ID4500948
AuthorsGastón J Beltrán (corresponding author)
Year2015
Volume42
Issue1
Pages27-45
Publication date2015-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueLatin American Perspectives (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0094-582X • E-ISSN: 1552-678X
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0094582x14560558
OpenAlexW2086084876
LanguageEN
References cited31

The market reforms implemented in Argentina in the early 1990s by President Carlos Saúl Menem, including privatization, market liberalization, and convertibility, were welcomed by business at the time, but it soon became apparent that they limited businessmen's economic and political power. Strikingly, despite these unexpected effects most sectors of the business community strongly supported the economic model for almost a decade. The apparent paradox of their continuing to support a model that was causing them a great deal of harm becomes less so when it is understood that their action was a result not of a rational assessment of costs and benefits but of complex processes taking place in organizational and political contexts. Their behavior is explainable in terms of the fragmentation of the business field, business's interpretative framework, and changes in the system of interest representation. Las reformas de mercado implementado a principios de la década de 1990 por el presidente Carlos Saúl Menem, incluso la privatización, la liberalización del mercado, y la convertibilidad, fueron bienvenidos por el empresadiado en el momento, pero pronto se hizo evidente que limitan el poder económico y político de los empresarios. Sorprendemente, a pesar de estos efectos inesperados, la mayoría de los sectores de la comunidad empresarial apoyaron firmamente el modelo económico durante casi una década. La aparente paradoja de que continuaron apoyando un modelo que les estaba causando mucho daño se reduce cuando se entiende que su acción fue el resultado no de una evaluación racional de costos y beneficios, sino de complejos procesos que ocurrieron en los contextos organizativos y políticos. Su comportamiento se puede explicar en términos de la fragmentación del campo de los negocios, el marco interpretativo de las empresas, y los cambios en el sistema de representación de intereses

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