Roberto Alemann

Roberto Alemann ( * 1922 in Buenos Aires ) is an Argentine politician, lawyer, journalist and author.

Life

The ancestors of his family immigrated from Switzerland to Argentina. Ancestors of Alemann founded the German -language weekly newspaper of the Argentine daily paper. Alemann visited the Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires, where he graduated in 1941, and studied law and social sciences at the Universidad de Buenos Aires. As a political opponent of President Juan Perón, he joined the team of Raúl Prebisch 1955. In 1957 he was co-founder of the Asociación Argentina de Economia Politica. In April 1961 Alemann successor of the Argentine economy minister Alvaro Alsogaray in the government of Arturo Frondizi. In January 1962, he had to give up the post of economy minister due to conservative pressure Argentine military personnel. After his resignation Alemann worked in the private sector and was lobbyist for the Swiss bank UBS. From 1964 to 1973 he worked as a professor of economics at the Universidad de Buenos Aires. In December 1981, Alemann was again appointed by General Leopoldo Galtieri Minister of Economics in Argentina after the budget of the Argentine government collapsed under a foreign debt. Allemann tried as Minister of Economics to stabilize the economic situation in Argentina and began to repair the loaded economic relations with the U.S. administration of Ronald Reagan and the International Monetary Fund. The invasion of the Argentine military in the Falkland Islands on 2 April 1982 destroyed the reform efforts Alemanns. After the defeat of the Argentine military during the Falklands War Alemann was replaced as Minister of Economics. Alemann dedicated after he retired from the Argentine policy of his work as a journalist for the Argentine daily paper as well as for a column in the newspaper Clarin.

Works (selection)

  • Sistemas Económicos (1953 ), Buenos Aires: Arayu
  • Hacia una política de inversiones (1960 ), Buenos Aires: Selección Contable
  • Curso de Política Económica Argentina ( 1970-81 ), Buenos Aires: EUDEBA
  • Breve historia de la política económica argentina (1989 ), Buenos Aires: Claridad
  • Recordando a Kennedy (1996 ), Buenos Aires: Sudamericana
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