Abstract

SEILER, CRISTHIAN. On Institutions, Ideas and Absences in the Neo-Developmentalist Analysis. Some Contributions Arising of the Argentine Experience. Desafíos [online]. 2021, vol.33, n.1, pp.221-254.  Epub Dec 13, 2021. ISSN 0124-4035.  https://doi.org/10.12804/revistas.urosario.edu.co/desafios/a.8554.

The most important analyses of the varieties of capitalism in Latin America reflected on the hierarchical and predominant character of transnational capital or the strategic centrality of the state in its neo-developmentalist version compared to its neo-liberal precedent. However, given the persistence of the usual peripheral structural characteristics (in particular, economic transnationalization) and the 'right turn', it is possible to point out disregard of the historical-structural trajectory of Latin American countries and the neoliberal hegemonic context as having impeded a more adequate interpretation of recent Latin American experiences. With reference to the Argentine experience, the work suggests that the deepening of the transnational domain and the marginalization of other productive actors such as SMEs should not be seen as an institutional failure, but as a specific form of state operation in the peripheral context. In this regard, this analysis connects state intervention with the role of international organizations (for example, the World Bank or Inter-American Development Bank) as diffuser nodes of ideas and policy approaches focused on a 'correct competitiveness' that has induced the state to act conditionally on behalf of the transnational domain of the domestic productive structure.

Keywords : State; development; ideas; SMEs policies; Argentina; neo-developmental.

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