Recursos y saberes en la construcción de poder en el nivel subnacional: la experiencia del equipo del Ministerio de Economía de la provincia de Buenos Aires (1987 - 2007)

Abstract

 This article focuses on the experience of the team that led

the Ministry of Economy of the Province of Buenos Aires

between 1987 and 2007 from the point of view of its production

and the build-up of analytical, political and technical

capacities. In order to achieve this, it discusses the process

that, in the context of the 2001 crisis, led to the creation

of the quasi-currency known as Patacón as an illustration

of the type of productions that characterized the work of

this group of public officers. The analysis of the ways in

which politics and technique were combined together in the

interventions of the provincial government’s economic team,

enable us to elaborate profiles of state actors of higher levels

of complexity than those that can be found in the predominant

literature in the field of public policies.