Resumen

CASTELLANI, Ana Gabriela  y  IRAMAIN, Lucas Daniel. The Decline of the Entrepreneur State: Structural Transformations and Performance of Argentine Public Companies (1976-1983). Am. Lat. Hist. Econ [online]. 2018, vol.25, n.2, pp.239-271. ISSN 2007-3496.  https://doi.org/10.18232/alhe.v25i1.866.

This paper is aimed mainly at examining the performance of some of the leading public enterprises in the last Argentinian dictatorship (1976-1983) in terms of employment, wages, productivity, foreign debt, and investment, among others. The study is carried out using primary sources from public firms and statistical records, under the hypothesis that during those years the financial and technical-operative habilities of the firms deteriorated in a substantive way as a result of the implementation of a new capital accumulation regime, based on financial valuation, peripheral privatization, working class discipline and a change in the conception of entrepreneur state as a key actor in the development strategy.

Palabras llave : entrepreneur State; public enterprises; Argentinian dictatorship.