Dartmouth Events

Once one of the richest countries in the world, Argentina long ago fell into a cycle of recurring debt crises, devaluations, and defaults. Despite its erratic politics, the corporatist system that Juan Domingo Peron set up some 80 years ago on the model of Mussolini’s Italy has been a constant in the country’s political economy. How has that system worked? How should we understand the rise of the new president Javier Milei? Will the current crisis and the government’s promise to limit power and open the economy finally put an end to Argentina’s corporatist republic? Ian Vasquez will try to make sense of Argentina’s current moment and of the country’s path from prosperity to poverty.

Co-author of the Human Freedom Index, editor of Global Fortune: The Stumble and Rise of World Capitalism, and co-editor of Perpetuating Poverty: The World Bank, the IMF and the Developing World, Vasquez has testified numerous times before Congress on economic development issues.

Tuesday April 23 at 5 pm in Rocky 3, sponsored by the Political Economy Project.