ABSTRACT
Argentina is an important country with a perplexing history that has attracted the attention of hundreds of scholars. They have offered many different explanations for the great Argentine failure. This chapter shows how a proper evaluation of the role of the interior in the national economy is necessary to fully understand the conventional explanations of the great Argentine failure. The idea that Argentina's dependence on Europe or the United States is a major or the major cause of the country's problems goes back at least a century. Jaime Fuchs was perhaps the most eloquent academic to adopt the dependency perspective in Argentina. Part of the explanation for Argentina's stagnation lies in the country's political instability, which Peron's methods did much to create. The idea that Argentina's dependence on Europe or the United States is a major or the major cause of the country's problems goes back at least a century.
