Roberto Alemann
| Roberto Alemann | |
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| Minister of Economy of Argentina | |
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In office December 22, 1981 – June 30, 1982 |
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| President | Leopoldo Galtieri |
| Preceded by | Lorenzo Sigaut |
| Succeeded by | José María Dagnino Pastore |
| Minister of the Economy | |
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In office April 26, 1961 – January 12, 1962 |
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| President | Arturo Frondizi |
| Preceded by | Álvaro Alsogaray |
| Succeeded by | Carlos Coll Benegas |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
December 22, 1922 Buenos Aires |
| Nationality | Argentine |
| Alma mater | University of Buenos Aires |
| Occupation | Publisher and academic |
Roberto Alemann (born December 22, 1922) is an Argentine lawyer, economist, publisher, and academic.
Alemann was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1922. His family, prominent German Argentines of Swiss extraction, had established the nation's premier German language daily, Argentinisches Tageblatt, in 1874. He graduated from the Buenos Aires National College in 1941, and from the University of Buenos Aires with a Law Degree in 1947. Alemann studied Economics at the University of Bern in 1947–48, and received a Doctorate in Social Sciences in 1952. Opposed to the populist policies of President Juan Perón, he joined senior policy adviser Raúl Prebisch's team following the 1955 coup against Perón, and took part in negotiations leading to the first loans granted to the Argentine government by the Paris Club of multilateral creditors.
Alemann co-founded the Argentine Association of Political Economy in 1957. The group prioritized dealing with structural inflation over the monetarist approach favored by more conservative policy-makers, such as Economy Minister Álvaro Alsogaray, who was appointed to the post in 1959 without President Arturo Frondizi's support. Frondizi, a proponent of developmentalism, opposed Alsogaray's austerity program, which brought down inflation, though at the cost of a severe recession in 1959. Alsogaray was replaced in April 1961 by Roberto Alemann. Alemann's structuralist approach complemented unofficial Frondizi point man Rogelio Julio Frigerio's policies well, as both focused on correcting the adverse effects of financing increasingly costly machinery imports with raw material exports of declining value (a terms of trade problem common to developing countries), though conservative and military pressure resulted in his removal in January 1962.
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