The Argentine as a Market

A practical economic survey of Argentina presents the country as chiefly a raw-material producer, links unusually high consumer prices to the concentration of trade and inflated urban rents, and critiques protective tariffs for creating dependent, uncompetitive industries and attracting unsuitable immigrants. It describes agricultural organization and colonization practices, especially the use of alfalfa and tenant systems, and discusses landholding patterns, railways, industrial labour conditions, foreign capital and public debt, and the outlook for British trade, closing with statistical appendices that illustrate trade and population trends.