Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: What is going on?

[Louis Proyect]

>Argentina was in "G7 ranks" back before World War II. IIRC, Argentina 
>was fifth in the world in automobile ownership per capita in 1929, 
>and B.A. was twelfth in the world in telephones per capita in 1913.

Ownership? G7 is about production, not consumption.

>I don't see anything "structural" about 
>Argentina's--terrifying--relative economic decline. Nothing similar 
>happened to Canada and Australia, which had very, very similar 
>profiles in terms of their pre-WWII structural position in the world 
>economy. (But they did have very different political profiles--summed 
>up perhaps in the idea that British investors, property-owners, and 
>bosses weren't "foreign.")
>
>
>Brad DeLong

Political profiles? Is that a euphemism for imperialism?

Louis Proyect
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