THE ECONOMY ARGENTINA is a classic on the economic development of Argentina. The first edition appeared in early 1963 and since it has had thirty reprints, more than 100,000 copies, and has been translated into English, Portuguese and Japanese. This historical approach studies the different stages of national economic process, in connection with the evolution of the global capitalist system, and analysis of the intricate political and social context in which this process took place. Forty-five years after his first edition, the book by Aldo Ferrer remains a work of reference for students and professionals of social and economic disciplines, and also for a broad public interest in knowing and understanding the global problems in the fluctuating and disconcerting trend of the economy of Argentina.In this fourth edition, enlarged and updated until the beginning of the twenty-first century, Aldo Ferrer, assisted by Marcelo Rougier, incorporates the findings of the economic history of recent decades and reflects the changes in this period both in the global order as at national level. Thus, Ferrer says in his preface to this edition: and "I insist on the idea that a principios del siglo XXI, closes the stage of neoliberal hegemony and begins a new phase of development of the country during which, in good time, Argentina can find the fate it deserves under the magnitude and quality of its human and material resources and ".