Javier Milei, economist and president of Argentina, is a complicated character whose background and views have deserved heated discussion. This article will look briefly at Milei as an Austrian economist — the question of his libertarianism was settled elsewhere. One further point before starting: This is an article about economic thought.

A sizable advantage Murray Rothbard’s approach to libertarianism – that is, one based in private property – has over other approaches, such as those based in vague notions of “freedom,” is its pursuit of non-contradiction. A frequent problem in modern liberal democracy is the desire to declare a number of things to be “rights,” that end up contradicting previously pronounced “rights.” One can readily see the problems in the American jurisprudence surrounding the “right to privacy” and what that supposedly entails.