In 1959, Ludwig von Mises gave lectures on economics in Argentina, where the economy was in steep decline. In the 1920s, Argentina was one of the world's wealthiest countries, but decades of Peronism and inflation started the country on the long road to poverty.
Octavio Bermudez
Octavio Bermudez is an Argentinian student of Political Sciences and International Relations at the University of Palermo, Argentina. On top of his academic studies on political science and IR theory, his main areas of interest and research are philosophy (with a focus on political philosophy), economics and history.
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Unsurprisingly, Javier Milei’s free-market and antistate initiatives face opposition in Argentina. Whether he is successful depends on his being able to politically outlast his collectivist opposition.
Ludwig von Mises visited Argentina in June 1959 by invitation of Dr. Alberto Benegas Lynch. The lectures Mises delivered at the University of Buenos Aires are reproduced in the book Economic Policy...
