The neoliberal paradigm, its economic mold and the emptying of democracy

Abstract

In the first neoliberal cycle, Martínez de Hoz sustained that the substitution of imports, saving foreign currency and fostering industries involves leaving aside the fundamental parameter of competitiveness. Macri, in the current third cycle, believes that the future of the national economy must be focused on the calling for foreign investments for the development of mining, the agro-industrial farming chain, receptive tourism, fishing and other services. Resource assignment by the market, without planning defined by citizens' opinions. Both disregard the construction of a long-term productive profile, the design of consumption logics, the technological styles and the distribution of wealth and income by the democratic path of the citizens' popular decision. In turn, these fundamental matters are encouraged to be subject of comparative static advantages which are defined by markets with increasing self-regulation. A mindset shared by the Menem-Cavallo administration.country’s economic development.