The Economist conducts a 3-hour interview of Javier Milei

Mr Milei talks a good game.  He is steeped in neoliberal economics, as he displays in a three-hour interview with The Economist.  He wants to privatise all the sclerotic state companies, dollarise the economy and reduce the country’s deficit to zero in his first year.  His political and economic models, he says, are Australia, Israel, Ireland and New Zealand.  For years talk of free-market capitalism has been a guaranteed vote-loser in bloated, statist Argentina.  Past attempts to liberalise have all faltered.  Yet if Mr Milei wins the election next month the country could, in theory, become again a laboratory for exciting, dynamism-promoting ideas.

~ "Can Javier Milei’s radical libertarianism save Argentina? Our interview explores his wild economic ideas—and his authoritarian streak," The Economist, September 7, 2023