Revisiting the Argentine industrial past. The arguments on development strategies in the Programa Conjunto para el Desarrollo Agropecuario e Industrial (1962-1965)

Abstract

This article studies the Programa Conjunto para el Desarrollo Agropecuario e Industrial (1962-1965), promoted by the Consejo Federal de Inversiones – a government agency linked to planning – and the Confederación General Económica – an employer association of the national bourgeoisie. Specifically, it analyzes the link between this initiative and the expert problematizations that had been taking shape since the end of the 1950s in favor of an industrial-export reorientation of the Argentine economy. To do this, it describes the different aspects of these arguments and highlights the role played in its configuration by the driving forces of the program. As shown, these organizations officiated as favorable environments for the institutionalization of such problematizations. Thus, the conclusions of the article contribute to a better understanding of the displacement that the Argentine development model began to experience during the 1960s, which was in a direction coinciding with the balance of the controversies analyzed.