“WE NEVER BENEFIT AT THE EXPENSE OF OTHER SECTORS”: COSTA RICAN PRIVATE INDUSTRY AND THE ECONOMIC CRISIS (1978-1985)
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| Format: | artículo original |
| Estat: | Versión publicada |
| Data de publicació: | 2023 |
| Descripció: | The economic crisis of 1980 exposed the failures of the interventionist development model that had been practiced in Costa Rica, especially since the entry into the Mercado Común Centroamericano (MCCA), which implied a strong policy of promoting industry, to achieve import substitution and stop depending so much on agricultural products. But, despite the industrial incentives, by the 1970s there was still no glimpse of a strong sector, capable of competing and ceasing to depend on the stimuli that the government gave it. When the crisis arrived, many technocrats took the opportunity to point to the industry as the main causer of the recession, reflected in the imbalance of the balance of payments. Given this scenery, this paper aims to show the version of industrialists in the face of the crisis and criticism from other sectors. How did they defend themselves? What did they think about the crisis? What did they see as their role in the national economy? |
| Pais: | Portal de Revistas UCR |
| Institution: | Universidad de Costa Rica |
| Repositorio: | Portal de Revistas UCR |
| Idioma: | Español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:portal.revistas.ucr.ac.cr:article/503 |
| Accés en línia: | https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/rdialogos/article/view/503 |
| Paraula clau: | small industry, economic history, mentalities, discourse analysis, newspapers, economic policy, neoliberalism, economic recession. pequeña industria, historia económica, mentalidades, análisis de discurso, periódicos, política económica, neoliberalismo, recesión económica. |