ИПИ Библиотека

This book is a long reply to those wishing to put down the tragic problems of Argentina to liberal ideas and economic liberty.

“...1930 was in many ways a watershed in Argentine history. The locomotive of Argentine growth - a dynamic export sector - stopped working in the way it had been doing until 1929. The coup in September 1930 ushered in a long period of growing instability and polarisation, culminating in the tragic years of the so-called Dirty War in 1970s. Argentina also changed mentally. A country believing in the future and development was transformed more and more into el pais frustrado (“the frustrated country”) and later on, to el pais desesperado (“the desperate country’), as has so often been brought home to us recently…”

Mauricio Rojas

Mauricio Rojas (1950) is Associate Professor in Economic History, Vice President at the Swedish think-tank Timbro and Director of Timbro’s Center for Welfare Reform.