Republic of Capital: Buenos Aires and the Legal Transformation of the Atlantic WorldStanford University Press, 02.07.2002 - 392 Seiten This book is a political history of economic life. Through a description of the convulsions of long-term change from colony to republic in Buenos Aires, Republic of Capital explores Atlantic world transformations in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Tracing the transition from colonial Natural Law to instrumental legal understandings of property, the book shows that the developments of constitutionalism and property law were more than coincidences: the polity shaped the rituals and practices arbitrating economic justice, while the crisis of property animated the support for a centralized and executive-dominated state. In dialectical fashion, politics shaped private law while the effort to formalize the domain of property directed the course of political struggles. In studying the legal and political foundations of Argentine capitalism, the author shows how merchants and capitalists coped with massive political upheaval and how political writers and intellectuals sought to forge a model of liberal republicanism. Among the topics examined are the transformation of commercial law, the evolution of liberal political credos, and the saga of political and constitutional turmoil after the collapse of Spanish authority. By the end of the nineteenth century, statemakers, capitalists, and liberal intellectuals settled on a model of political economy that aimed for open markets but closed the polity to widespread participation. The author concludes by exploring the long-term consequences of nineteenth-century statehood for the following century's efforts to promote sustained economic growth and democratize the political arena, and argues that many of Argentina's recent problems can be traced back to the framework and foundations of Argentine statehood in the nineteenth century. |
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... regime of wealth - seeking in which capitalists relied upon legal favors and privileges percolating down from the sovereign . As warfare and revolution shredded the legal ligaments of mercantile fortunes , capital- ists struggled to ...
... regime was itself so contested . Accordingly , Argentina was ( and is ) no less liberal than other republics ; it is not a case of persistent liberal failure . Such a formulation has always struck me as ahistorical , and indeed silly ...
... regime for deficit - financing . The overall long - term trends of income and spending nonetheless reveal a precari- ou imbalance : a very modest surplus for Spain , but one that might eas- ily disappear under duress . The strength and ...
... regime of the Littoral do not capture the region's deep ambiguities and the fullness of its con- tradictions . The long - standing image of a binary society polarized be- tween an enriched and oligarchical landed elite and an exploited ...
... regime - to become a true corporate guild - was a tall or- der , to say the least . Ranchers did keep up their verbal battles in peti- tions and claims to the Cabildo ( municipal council ) and Consulado ( merchant guild ) , which grew ...
Inhalt
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The Quest for Equipoise in the Shadow of Revolution | 49 |
From Revolution to Civil War | 74 |
Rosas Agonistes or the Political Economy of Cronyism | 109 |
The Duress of Merchant Law | 141 |
Reconsidering the Republic | 165 |
Constitutional Persuasions | 193 |
The New Property of Merchant Capital | 224 |
The Battle for Monetary Authority | 251 |
The Unfinished Revolution of the Republic of Capital | 279 |
Notes | 297 |
Bibliography | 331 |
Index | 365 |
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