This article aims to investigate the global origins of neoliberalism outside of Europe and the United States, analyzing the specific case of Argentina. Examining the early Argentine neoliberal institutions and journals, the first part of the article analyzes not only the networks that facilitated the visits of Western neoliberal intellectuals to Latin America and the translation and dissemination of their ideas, but also the transformation of these ideas into ideological weapons against the local forms of state dirigisme: Peronism and developmentalism. The second part focuses on Friedrich von Hayek’s lectures in Argentina, the arguments he presented and the contradictions it faced, particularly legitimizing the temporary suspension of the rule of law to restore market order outside Western democracies. The third part investigates how Hayek’s thought was received and adapted by Alberto Benegas Lynch, highlighting its conservative and authoritarian radicalization in relation to both the 19th century Argentine liberal tradition and the military regimes established in 1955 and 1976. Overall, the article shows how neoliberal doctrine began to circulate in the global South since the 1950s, as well as the specifically conservative and authoritarian form it originally took and still retains today in Argentina
Questo saggio intende indagare le origini globali del neoliberalismo al di fuori dell’Europa e degli Stati Uniti, analizzando lo specifico caso argentino. Prendendo in esame le prime istituzioni e riviste neoliberali argentine, la prima parte del saggio analizza non solo i circuiti che hanno permesso le visite degli intellettuali neoliberali occidentali in America Latina e la traduzione e diffusione delle loro idee, ma anche la loro trasformazione in armi ideologiche contro le forme locali di dirigismo statale: il peronismo e lo sviluppismo. La seconda parte si sofferma sulle conferenze di Friedrich von Hayek in Argentina gettando luce sulle tesi che ha sostenuto e sulle contraddizioni cui è andato incontro, in particolare legittimando la temporanea sospensione del rule of law per ristabilire l’ordine di mercato, fuori dalle democrazie occidentali. La terza parte, infine, indaga il modo in cui il pensiero di Hayek è stato ricevuto e riadattato da Alberto Benegas Lynch, mettendone in evidenza la radicalizzazione conservatrice e autoritaria, in relazione all’articolazione, rispettivamente, con la tradizione liberale argentina del XIX secolo e con i regimi militari instaurati nel 1955 e nel 1976. Complessivamente, il saggio mostra come la dottrina neoliberale, sin dagli anni Cinquanta, ha iniziato a circolare nel Sud globale, ma anche la forma specificatamente conservatrice e autoritaria che essa ha originariamente assunto e che conserva ancora oggi in Argentina.
Hayek a Buenos Aires: sulle origini globali del neoliberalismo argentino / M. Ciolli. - In: POLEMOS. - ISSN 2281-9517. - 4:2(2023), pp. 87-110. [10.48247/P2023-2-006]
Hayek a Buenos Aires: sulle origini globali del neoliberalismo argentino
M. Ciolli
2023
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This article aims to investigate the global origins of neoliberalism outside of Europe and the United States, analyzing the specific case of Argentina. Examining the early Argentine neoliberal institutions and journals, the first part of the article analyzes not only the networks that facilitated the visits of Western neoliberal intellectuals to Latin America and the translation and dissemination of their ideas, but also the transformation of these ideas into ideological weapons against the local forms of state dirigisme: Peronism and developmentalism. The second part focuses on Friedrich von Hayek’s lectures in Argentina, the arguments he presented and the contradictions it faced, particularly legitimizing the temporary suspension of the rule of law to restore market order outside Western democracies. The third part investigates how Hayek’s thought was received and adapted by Alberto Benegas Lynch, highlighting its conservative and authoritarian radicalization in relation to both the 19th century Argentine liberal tradition and the military regimes established in 1955 and 1976. Overall, the article shows how neoliberal doctrine began to circulate in the global South since the 1950s, as well as the specifically conservative and authoritarian form it originally took and still retains today in Argentina| File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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