Modelo de ajuste estructural en Argentina: economía y política de un fracaso

Abstract

This paper presents a balance of the results obtained through prescriptions of
structural adjustment that were applied in Argentina during the 1990´s. The inability of the new economic orientation for solving the structural problems of the foreign debt is underlined, since it has brought an increased impairment of the productive capacity of the country, with negative effects on the social arena. A call is made to rescue the ethical criteria that ought to be at the conceptual and argumentative basis of those in charge of the economic policy. These, inspired in the recipies of the Washington Consensus, sacralized the market up to the point of making it a substitute of the institutional order of the State, with the ensuing social negative impact, and made of the borrowing capacity of the country the main target of the economic policy.