Recursos y saberes en la construcción de poder en el nivel subnacional: la experiencia del equipo del Ministerio de Economía de la provincia de Buenos Aires (1987 - 2007)

This article focuses on the experience of the team that led the Ministry of Economy of the Province of Buenos Aires between 1987 and 2007 from the point of view of its production and the build-up of analytical, political and technical capacities. In order to achieve this, it discusses the process that, in the context of the 2001 crisis, led to the creation of the quasi-currency known as Patacon as an illustration of the type of productions that characterized the work of this group of public officers. The analysis of the ways in which politics and technique were combined together in the interventions of the provincial government’s economic team, enable us to elaborate profiles of state actors of higher levels of complexity than those that can be found in the predominant literature in the field of public policies.