Economists and COVID-19: The Case of Argentina

Gabriel Brondino () and Andrés Lazzarini
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Gabriel Brondino: Universittà Cattolica del Sacro Cuore

Chapter Chapter 8 in Economists and COVID-19, 2022, pp 135-155 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The chapter describes the theoretical and economic policy positions held during the pandemic by two diverging groups of economists in Argentina: on the one hand, the government’s economic team and associated professional and academic economists following the structuralist/heterodox school of thought; on the other hand, a group of heterogeneous, influential domestic economists adhering to more orthodox/liberalist economic and political ideas. The analysis presented here focuses on the diverging positions and reactions around three areas: (i) whether containment measures such as lockdowns were to be adopted permanently, and if they were the most appropriate; (ii) the evaluation of the economic relief policies being implemented; (iii) how to face the issue of financing under a dollar shortage.

Keywords: Argentina; COVID-19; Economic policies; Structuralism; Orthodox economics; IMF (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-05811-0_8

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