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Problems of democratisation
Two US Embassy documents shed some light on Peronism’s role in the origins of state terror in the 1970s
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~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
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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
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A New Zealand-shaped spanner
A comparison with New Zealand complicates the story of Argentina’s relative decline
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Argentina/United States and Argentina/Australia updates
More on my revisions of Argentina’s historical GDP statistics
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The argument in a nutshell
This is how I currently see the argument of my book on Argentina
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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
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Why Argentina is one of only two interesting countries
I’m only half joking
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The Poor Rich Nation
My next book will be on the political economy of Argentina
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