IDIHCS   22126
INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES EN HUMANIDADES Y CIENCIAS SOCIALES
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
Imaginaires, anticipations et modèles économiques. Réflexions sur l?expérience récente de l?Argentine
Autor/es:
PABLO IGNACIO CHENA; JAIME MARQUES-PEREIRA
Lugar:
Lille
Reunión:
Congreso; Colloque international AFEP-IIPPE, Penser l'économie de demain et le futur de l'économie politique; 2019
Institución organizadora:
IIPPE (International Initiative for Promoting Political Economy). AFEP (French Association for Political Economy/L?Association Française d?Économie Politique). ADEK (Association for the Development of Keynesian Studies). AHE (Association for Hetero
Resumen:
The paper has the objective of explaining therelationships between the formation-creation of social imaginaries that limitthe possible models of economic and social development (Castoriadis, 1975); thefictional expectations constructed from them (Becker, 2013) and theshort and long term sustainability of the growth regimes. In this context weanalyze the relationship between the political imaginaries of the future andthe economic growth regimes through the money as a political institution (thesymbol that coordinates the present and the future) and as economic-functionalinstitution (the unit of account, means of payment and deposit of value).From the structural point of view, the proposed schemehighlights the political instance that creates, through the current socialimaginaries, what will be understood later as economic development and,consequently, defines what are the (economic and social) problems to overcomein order to achieve it (Castoriadis, 1975). While the growth regime has thefunction of fulfilling the income expectations of the different social classesthat are expressed in the social imaginary (capitalists, workers, financialrentiers, rentiers of the land, technocracies of "experts" andpolitical class)In the short term it is possible that the growthregime doesn?t validate the income expectations of the different social classesarticulated in the social imaginary. In this case, a period of the unit ofaccount instability weakens the current political articulation and exacerbatesthe distributive conflict in search of a new growth regime. But if thefictional expectations created from the imaginary sphere are validated by thegrowth regime, confidence in the money as institution grows and with this theeconomic and political stability.On an empirical level, the article analyzes theArgentina?s experience during the Kirchnerismo. The objective here is to show,through data sources, interviews and discourse analysis, the politicalarticulations that formed the current social imaginaries in this country, theconstruction of fictional expectations created from them and their reflectionin the behavior of economic actors. Finally, we will characterize the growthregime, its sustainability and the reasons for its abandonment.