ABSTRACT

Despite over twenty years of political resistance, globalisation endures, both as a discourse and political project. While many works have established how discourses of globalisation serve to constrain and/or guide macroeconomic policy, the dynamic nexus that exists between microeconomic decision-making processes vis-à-vis macroeconomic conditions is a less explored matter. Epistemologically, this paper offers a means of gaining analytical purchase over the logics, motivations, and thought processes of international bankers – and the financial press, which chronicle their actions. This is accomplished via a rigorous discursive-content analysis that gauges how said agents understood globalisation, the role of finance, the state, and even how market sentiment was factored into their ontological worldview. Ultimately, the goal is to establish an historical and spatiotemporally heterogeneous analysis on if, how, and what ideas of globalisation and neoliberalism influenced/rationalized the financialization of Argentine banks during the 1990s and how these evolved en route to Argentina's 2001 collapse.

摘要

尽管经历了二十多年的政治阻力，全球化作为一种​​话语和政治项目仍然存在。虽然许多著作已经确定了全球化话语如何限制和/或指导宏观经济政策，但微观经济决策过程与宏观经济条件是一个较少探讨的问题。从认识论上讲，本文提供了一种方法，可以通过分析购买国际银行家的逻辑、动机和思维过程——以及记录他们行为的金融媒体。这是通过严格的话语内容分析来实现的，该分析衡量上述代理人如何理解全球化、金融、国家的作用，甚至市场情绪如何被纳入他们的本体世界观。最终，我们的目标是建立一个历史和时空异质分析，分析全球化和新自由主义的思想是否、如何以及哪些思想影响/合理化了 1990 年代阿根廷银行的金融化，以及这些思想如何演变为阿根廷2001 年的崩溃。