This article is a translation of a 1959 interview in the Argentinian newspaper La Presna. It appears here in English for the first time, thanks to the Hayek Foundation. “The Austrian-born North American economist, writer, and teacher, Ludwig von Mises, who, we are informed, arrived from New York early yesterday morning, spoke with us about his activities in Buenos Aires. In Buenos Aires, he will give a series of talks in the Faculty of Economic Sciences with the sponsorship of the Center for the Promotion of the Free Economy, chaired by Mr. Alberto Benegas Lynch.” FULL ARTICLE
Source link: http://archive.mises.org/8158/mises-in-argentina/
Mises in Argentina
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Ohh thanks for this!!!
I am an argentinian, and I live in Buenos Aires City. Mises has a lot of followers here in the land of statism called Argentina. We fight everyday against the evil national state on our blogs, trying to change the view of the reality trough the Mises, Hayek,. and Rothbard ideas.
Our country changed the path of sound money and liberalism when general peron arrived to the goverment and instaled fascist full statism. Now we only remember what we could have been if we had followed the liberal way of freedmon…
The newspaper is called La Prensa, and was shut down by the goverment of general peron because he was a fierce critic of his despotical goverment.
It’s discouraging to consider that von MIses showered this much of his insight on Argentina, of all places. I refer, of course, to Argentina’s having become in recent decades, the archetype of statist monetary mismanagement that it has, replete with a (then) superficially hopeful interlude of dollarization.
He showered far more of his insight on his native Austria and his adopted United States, of course, and in the time since then, neither of these has displayed much acceptance or understanding of it, either, by any stretch.
As I said, discouraging . . .
…and yet evita peron’s tomb at recoleta cemetery still attract visitors, and the flowers laid there are fresh!
Joe:
I sympathize but cannot agree.
Anyone who expects an Austrian (and Misesian) view to supplant current monetary theory, thought, and practice overnight or even in the space of a few lifetimes) is a dreamy idealist. All of “the powers that be” are contra as well as general public opinion and its molders–education and media.
But, on the other hand, there vastly greater numbers now of Austrians and of people who at least know something of what Austrians think. You’d have to concede that as encouraging, or at least in the positive direction, wouldn’t you say? There is at least a difference in being thought a “fringe” thinker and being dismissed as a “lunatic fringe” thinker!
What I mean to say is that, although Mises himself might also mourn the pace of progress, he’d be (realistically) pleased that progress has been made.
Don’t be like the guy in the joke: In the depths of my misery, one bright, encouraging thought broke through: “Cheer up! Things could be much worse.” So, I cheered up and, sure enough, things got much worse.
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