Javier Milei
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Bloomberg Talks · Argentina President Javier Milei Talks Free Trade and Global Economy · 22 Jan 2026
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One of the things is that you can't possibly kill justice or the auto-efficiency, whether it be Pareto efficiency
or the efficiency of Machiavelli's political calculus.
This is why I said yesterday that Machiavelli is dead and we need to bury him because what we are proving
is that when you design policies on the basis of ethical and moral values, and when you do what is just, not what best suits the political rubbish people who work only on the basis of political speculation, that's how you gain support.
We got 41% of the vote, a 17% lead over Kirchnerism, which in a general presidential election would mean winning on the first round.
And the latest surveys show that 62% of Argentines
Well, actually, I came to understand the ideas of freedom as an economic growth specialist back in the years of 2013 to 2014. I could see that per capita GDP statistics over the last 2,000 years of the Christian era essentially looked like a hockey stick, indicating that per capita GDP remained almost constant until around 1800, after which it accelerated sharply.
In the same context of that phenomenal increase in productivity and per capita GDP, the population had multiplied sevenfold over the preceding 200 years.
So basically, in economics, that means you get increasing returns and the presence of increasing returns implies the existence of monopolies, concentrated structures, and according to traditional neoclassical economic theory, the presence of monopolies and concentrated structures is not a good thing.
But at the same time, one could see that living standards had increased tremendously and that middle-income people ended up living far better than emperors did in the Roman era and the population had gone from having 95% of people in extreme poverty to less than 10%.
And in that context, the question was how it could be that something that had lifted so many people out of poverty, that had improved human condition so much, could be something bad for economic theory, meaning something was not right. So in that context, I remember that one of the people who worked on my team suggested I read an article by Murray Newton Rothbard called Monopoly and Competition.
I remember reading it like it was today. And after reading it carefully, I said, everything I've taught about market structure in the last 20 years in courses on microeconomics is wrong. This caused a very strong internal commotion in me, so I called this person who used to work with me, and they recommended a place to buy Austrian School of Economics books.
And I remember I bought at least 20 or 30 books, which I went to pick up one Saturday afternoon. And when I visited the bookstore, I was fascinated by all the stuff they had there. So I went back the next day and I started calculating how much money I needed to pay for my dog's food. That's my four-legged child and how much I needed to spend on the taxi fare and food.
And then with what I have left, I spent all of it on more books. And then I started to read very intensively. And I remember, for example, the experience of reading Human Action by Mises. And this was a book that I didn't know about. And I remember that.
On the following weekend, 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. And having the chance to read Austrian authors like Rothbard, Mises, Hayek, Hoppe, and Jesus Huerta de Soto, or others like Juan Ramon Rallo, Philip Bagus, and Walter Bloch, for example. That was very inspirational.
And at one point, I got the opportunity to read related to the works of Alberto Venegas Linchijo. And I also had the pleasure and honor to meet him. And today, we are actually friends. So that paved the way for me to approach the ideas of freedom. And another book that was a very significant influence and impact on me was The Principles of Political Economics by Menger.
It was truly eye-opening, or let's say, for reading Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk, these were things that really challenged all of my form of thinking. I had a vague idea and poor about the Austrian school. The only thing I had read about the Austrian school until then had been Money and Time, a very good book by Garrison.
But now that I understand a little bit more about Austrian economics, I know that it was rather poor. This doesn't mean that the book isn't good, but there were a whole lot of things to read that ended up being truly fascinating.
Strictly speaking, I am an anarcho-capitalist. I despise the state government. I despise violence. Let us suppose we take the definition of liberalism. I usually use the definition of liberalism given by Alberto Venegas Linchijo, which is very much in line with the definition.
of John Locke, which essentially matches the definition by Alberto Benegas Lynch Jr., who said that liberalism is the unrestricted respect for the life project of others based on the principle of non-aggression and in defense of the right to life, liberty and property. So I frame all of the discussions within those terms as
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