Archive - The Poor Rich Nation Blog

Problems of democratisation

Two US Embassy documents shed some light on Peronism’s role in the origins of state terror in the 1970s

May 12 •

~6,000 pages of reports from the US embassy in Buenos Aires, c. 1960–1972

I have made available documents that I copied in the US National Archives over a decade ago

May 9 •

March 2024

When nominal beats purchasing power parity

Looking at Argentina’s relative nominal GDP per capita gives a clearer indication of when its decline began

Mar 19 •

A New Zealand-shaped spanner

A comparison with New Zealand complicates the story of Argentina’s relative decline

Mar 13 •

Argentina/United States and Argentina/Australia updates

More on my revisions of Argentina’s historical GDP statistics

Mar 12 •

The argument in a nutshell

This is how I currently see the argument of my book on Argentina

Mar 7 •

January 2024

Milei and the Maddison Project

New estimates of Argentina’s relative GDP per capita lead to a better understanding of the country’s decline

Jan 22 •

Why Argentina is one of only two interesting countries

I’m only half joking

Jan 16 •

The Poor Rich Nation

My next book will be on the political economy of Argentina

Jan 15 •

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