Importación de instituciones
The paper comprises five short essays written during the political, economic and social agony of the last two years. The first one, on imported institutions, claims that A rgentina b ecame a civiliz ed country when, at the end of the 19 th century, managed to get into a great club and imported from it her b asic political, monetary and commercial institutions, and that the country went b ack to political anarchy and economic decline when, around1930, repudiated that club .