The Government of Uncertainty explores key factors in the political economy of Buenos Aires between the mid-eighteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries. The transition process between the viceregal order and the emergence of a new Buenos Aires sovereignty allows us to study the continuities and changes experienced in the field of taxation, financial policies and institutions, the actors and economic conditions as demonstrated by the evolution of the market, currencies and trade.

This book proposes a long-term historical analysis of the interaction between changing sovereignty, a diversity of governments, and an economy in transition, in which institutional conditions and market performance, as well as political and financial dynamics, exerted a mutual and bidirectional impact.