Overview

• Perochena detailed Angus Maddison’s data placing Argentina between seventh and thirteenth in GDP per capita from 1900 to 1930, highlighting that its 7.5 million population constrained its economic scale.
• She compared Argentina’s 1913 GDP per capita of US$1,770 and 7.5 million inhabitants with Germany’s similar figure for 67 million people and the United States’ leading ranking at US$3,771 for 97 million.
• Drawing on Lucas Llach’s ‘Rica pero no tan moderna,’ she emphasized that primary school enrollment ranked nineteenth at 600 per 1,000 children, trailing richer nations in human capital development.
• She cited President Carlos Pellegrini’s 1901 letter and defined true global power as the capacity to mold international norms, noting Argentina was absent from key decision-making circles.
• President Javier Milei has not introduced new evidence since his July 10 tweets attacking Perochena, leaving his global-power narrative unsubstantiated against her detailed rebuttals.