A Dissertation presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Yale University in candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy.

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v.1. Introduction -- 2. The antecedents of the 1930s and the Second World War -- 3. The postwar transformation of the argentine economy... -- 4. The relatively smaller role of government policies other than credit and protection incentives in influencing Argentina's postwar industrialization... -- 5. Credit and protection policies: the nature, extent and efficiency of the favor granted to industry ... -- 6. Industrial expansion and reallocation of resources -- 7. Summary and conclusions. -- v. 2. Appendix: credits granted by the Bank of the Nation, 1932-1943 -- credits granted and loans outstanding, leading government banks, 1939-1943 -- The years of the economic stabilization program -- Index of the volume of loans oustanding and of production for manufacturing industries, june 1945- december 1948 -- Industrial loans oustanding, 1943-1948 -- Metallurgical undustry complaints of increased imports, 1948-1958 -- Industrial loans oustanding, 1947-1958 -- An evaluation of the competitive position of Argentine industries by the armour research corporation, 1943 -- Industries singled out for differential protection, 1945-1955 -- Indexes of loans outstanding and industrial production in graphs -- Index of the physical volume of industrial production for the years 1946, 1948, 1950 and 1953 -- Revised index of the physical volume of production of metals, machinery and electrical equipment, 1944-1948 -- The evaluation of the individual products in industry studies -- Argentine-U.S. price comparisons, 1950-1962 -- Summary of Argentine-U.S. price index comparisons -- Bibliography.