La impronta de Carlos Lleras Restrepo en la economía colombiana de los años sesenta del siglo XX.

• Main Author: Carlos Caballero Argáez.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidad de los Andes 2009-08-01
• Series: Revista de Estudios Sociales
• Subjects: State; Economic Intervention; Planning; Technocracy.
• Online Access: http://res.uniandes.edu.co/view.php/599/1.php

Carlos Lleras Restrepo is the emblematic Colombian president of the 1960s. The mark he made lasted until 1990, but his influence on the management of the Colombian economy started in the 1930s. This article focuses on the intellectual evolution of Carlos Lleras Restrepo between the 1930s and the 1960s. It examines the development of his concept of state intervention in the economy; describes the evolution of the Colombian economy in the second half of the 1960s while he was president; and provides details about two of his main contributions to the creation of Colombia’s economic institutions: the Foreign Exchange Code of 1967 and the Constitutional Reform of 1968, which made economic planning constitutionally mandatory. Lleras Restrepo’s presidential style and the role he gave technocrats in the management of the economy is also briefly discussed. The article confirms Lleras Restrepo’s important contribution to building a modern state in Colombia.