Critique of Binary Reason: entrepreneurial power and global agenda within the framework of local market protection policies. The case of Pricing Care in Argentina
Authors
Juan Pablo Quiroga
Georgetown University y Universidad de San Martín
It tends to be a temptation of the intellect, either guided by a search for argument economy or the result of a vestige of Structuralism, to reduce the complexity of the social phenomena to binary options. The process of globalization, its consequences and implications, did not escape this temptation. In fact, under the pair of liberalization / protectionism, the density involved in the processes of transnationalization was made invisible. And so were its variants and resistances. In this sense, the present research seeks to account for and depict the complexity of this relationship, based on the analysis of Precios Cuidados policy in Argentina and its (voluntary) acceptance by local retailers. Our main argument is that it implied a window of opportunity -within a framework of more fluid negotiations with government officials- to manage interests related to global commerce flow. We will attempt to show that only on the condition of breaking with certain vestiges of "binary reasoning", it begins to become intelligible that in the very folds of certain market protection policy designs may lay the conditions that energizes global trade. Only then can the relationship between State and its otherness -the market structure- be understood in all its complexity.
Keywords:
Price Control Policies, Business Power, State Autonomy, State Capacity, Political Economy
Quiroga, J. P. (2017). Critique of Binary Reason: entrepreneurial power and global agenda within the framework of local market protection policies. The case of Pricing Care in Argentina. Journal Studies of Public Policy, 3(1), 122–138. https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-6296.2017.46353
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