The country the owners want
Abstract
This book investigates several well-known members of new political and economic power structures, whom Alejandro Bercovich, the volume's compiler, calls "technomagnates": a new dominant class that, in his view, has so far—perhaps it's too soon?—failed to become a ruling class. In Gramscian terms: it has not known how, or been able, to generate hegemony. This is no easy task in a country that, according to this reviewer, has been stumbling for some time now, in a degraded variant of the pendularity that Marcelo Diamand observed in 1972. The authors of the various chapters trace the trajectories and the financial, technological, and institutional mechanisms that opened the doors to the select group of those who rule, according to the title of the great bestseller of Argentine sociology (José Luis de Imaz, Los que mandan, Eudeba 1984).
