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Abstract
The specialized literature on the political economy of income redistribution in Argentina usually focuses on economic limits. It discusses the incompatibility between redistributive policies and the external balance or their effect on the long-term growth rate. However, less attention has been paid to the political resistance exerted by the winners of international trade to sharing their gains and to the role of financial integration. In this paper, we develop a model, framed in the modern revival of Classical theory, of a small open economy with differential rent to account for these factors. First, we include interests as an income category to assess the impact of financial integration. Second, we introduce the concept of ‘political stalemate’ – the resistance of productive classes to economic policies that go against their economic interest. We show how financial integration and the political resistance of landowners are behind the failure of income redistributive policies in favor of workers. In this context, we analyze the necessary economic and political conditions for such policies to succeed.
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The Review of Keynesian Economics (ROKE) is dedicated to the promotion of research in Keynesian economics. Not only does that include Keynesian ideas about macroeconomic theory and policy, it also extends to microeconomic and meso-economic analysis and relevant empirical and historical research. The journal provides a forum for developing and disseminating Keynesian ideas, and intends to encourage critical exchange with other macroeconomic paradigms. The journal is dedicated to the development of Keynesian theory and policy. In our view, Keynesian theory should hold a similar place in economics to that held by the theory of evolution in biology. Many individual economists still work within the Keynesian paradigm, but intellectual success demands institutional support that can leverage those individual efforts. The journal offers such support by providing a forum for developing and sharing Keynesian ideas. Not only does that include ideas about macroeconomic theory and policy, it also extends to microeconomic and meso-economic analysis and relevant empirical and historical research. We see a bright future for the Keynesian approach to macroeconomics and invite the economics profession to join us by subscribing to the journal and submitting manuscripts.