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Javier Milei: President of Argentina - Freedom, Economics, and Corruption | Lex Fridman Podcast #453

Javier Milei: President of Argentina - Freedom, Economics, and Corruption | Lex Fridman Podcast #453

Recommended on this episode

BookRecommendedISBN verified

Human Action

Ludwig von Mises

“that was a true revolution in my head”
“the experience of reading Human Action by mises... I started to read this book right from the first page and I didn't stop until I finished it and that was a true revolution in my head”— Javier Milei
BookRecommended

Principles of Economics

Carl Menger

“a very significant influence and impact on me... it was truly eye openening”
“another book that was a very significant influence and impact on me was the principles of political economics by manger it was truly eye openening”— Javier Milei
BookRecommended

Money and Time

Roger Garrison (inferred)

“a very good book by Garrison”
“the only thing I had read about the Austrian school until then had been money and time a very good book by Garrison”— Javier Milei

The guest's own work

BookBy the guest

Capitalism, Socialism and the Neoclassical Trap

Javier Milei

“my latest book called capitalism socialism and the neoclassical trap deals precisely with this issue”— Javier Milei

Also referenced (named, not recommended)

BookReferenced

Monopoly and Competition

Murray N. Rothbard

“one of the people who worked on my team suggested I read an article by Murray Newton rothbart called Monopoly and competition... everything I've thought about Market structure... is wrong”— Javier Milei
BookReferenced

Socialism

Ludwig von Mises

“socialism and this is what mises condemns in his book socialism shows is that uh without private property prices cease to exist”— Javier Milei
BookReferencedISBN verified

The Road to Serfdom

Friedrich Hayek

“this is proven in Hayek's book The Road to serom that any Middle Ground solution is unstable in terms of capitalism”— Javier Milei
MediaReferenced

Libre

Nino Bravo

“there is a song um by a Spanish singer called Nino Bravo... the song is called lib and the song it tells the story of Peter feter”— Javier Milei