El papel de los banqueros en la construcción de estado y soberanía monetaria en Colombia (1880-1931)

As its title indicates, this book is a history of the evolution of monetary institutions and financial establishments in the country from the beginning of the Regeneration to the end of conservative hegemony and the convertibility of the peso in the midst of the Great Depression. The research strategy is interdisciplinary, which allows the author to comprehensively examine the transformations of our currency and banking during a turbulent period in political, social and economic terms.

The conventional approach to historiography is the view "from above"; That is, it emphasizes the decisions of Congress and the Government regarding currency regulation. The author combines that perspective with a look "from below." Banks and bankers are not always passive objects of state decisions; They are also architects and participants of initiatives and debates that lead to changes in the monetary order.

The author's analysis allows us to observe a very Colombian custom: the revolving door that still persists. Policy makers become bankers and vice versa, without the bipartisan polarization that for many characterizes the era being evident in the world of financial business. As a context for this process, the author provides a vision of the structural transformations of the Colombian economy during that half-century.