The IMF's orthodox artillery against Bernardo Grinspun: a socio-metaphorical analysis
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Economic policy, Socio-metaphorical analysis, Economic HistoryAbstract
In this essay we offer a critical approach to the use of orthodox discourse around the economic policy of Bernardo Grinspun in the Government of Raúl Alfonsín. For this, we apply the socio-metaphorical analysis proposed by Emmanuel Lizcano. We try to highlight, through an emblematic historical case, the way in which the theoretical construction of neoclassical orthodoxy allow to characterize a certain economic situation in apparently neutral, necessary, technocratic and scientific terms, hiding the plot of interests and underlying power in each instance. At the methodological level, this work draws on a historical-hermeneutic approach, based on secondary sources.
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