Politics and economy in the nationalists of the Patria Argentina: the economist Beveraggi-Allende in the Alfonsin years (1986-1988)

Abstract

Argentine nationalist thought has profuse studies from historiography, especially political history. However, the economic and economic policy dimension in its intellectual references still constitutes a dimension that has been scarcely explored, although in recent years several studies have been developed that point to these dimensions. This paper deals with the publication Patria Argentina (1986-1989), which can be understood as an important proclamation of local nationalism in the years of the return to democracy. In addition, this publication has few direct approaches, especially on the economic discussions that it opened in those years of crisis that was coordinated by the economist Walter Beveraggi-Allende. The analysis is carried out taking into account the classic contributions of the history of magazines, and the most current ones focused on articulating the economic discussion with tools of political and cultural history. In this sense, the editorial project of the publication is reconstructed, its antecedents, outstanding trajectories and other variables that allow framing the historical approach of the magazine. Then, it goes on to the specific analysis of the economic debate and economic policy coordinated by Patria Argentina. It was concluded that, despite the scarce variety of economists in the magazine, this was a dimension that occupied a significant place in it and that synthesized a comprehensive look at national and world economic relations that, driven by Beveraggi-Allende, it explained local debates about economic policy in a nationalistic sense.