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Adham Bishr's avatar

How can Argentina avoid the problems that occurred with the “shock therapy” in the former Soviet bloc?

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Lars Petrus's avatar

Argentina has a capitalistic economy. Badly wounded by governments, but it's still there, and it can recover if it gets abused less.

The Soviet bloc had centrally controlled plan economies. That's a whole other animal. It won't become a capitalistic economy if you stop planning.

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TGGP's avatar

Russia was in a very different situation of one-party rule collapsing into gangsterism. The earliest usage of the term "shock therapy" was actually in South American countries with hyperinflation, and it worked out there.

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Adham Bishr's avatar

So can the government regulate the privatization it seeks? What occurred in Russia was greed and seems perfectly capable of happening elsewhere.

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Toad Worrier's avatar

The regulation you need are rule of law including (but not limited to) respect for property an contracts. The Russian state tried to develop that.

Argentina might.

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