Episode · Lex Fridman Podcast · 2024-11-20
Lex Fridman & Javier Milei: books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #453
#453 – Javier Milei: President of Argentina – Freedom, Economics, and Corruption
Javier Milei is the President of Argentina. This episode is available in both English and Spanish.
Javier Milei recommended Money, Bank Credit, and Economic Cycles by Jesús Huerta de Soto, and discussed Monopoly and Competition (Intro to Free Market Econ Ser 1 Cassette/313) by Murray N. Rothbard, Human Action by Ludwig von Mises and others, Principles of economics by Carl Menger, Time and Money by Roger W Garrison, The book of Exodus, Socialism by Ludwig Von Mises, and The Road to Serfdom by F. A. Hayek.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Monopoly and Competition (Intro to Free Market Econ Ser 1 Cassette/313)
Discussed“so in that context I remember that one of the people who worked on my team suggested I read an article by Murray Newton rothbart called Monopoly and competition I remember reading it like it was today and after reading it carefully I said everything I've T about Market structure in the last 20 years in courses on microeconomics is”
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Human Action
Discussed“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”
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Principles of economics
Discussed“and another book that was a very significant influence and impact on me was the principles of political economics by manger it was truly eye openening”
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Time and Money
Discussed“the only thing I had read about the Austrian school until then had been money and time a very good book by Garrison”
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Money, Bank Credit, and Economic Cycles
Recommended“I had a vague idea about the Austrian School; the only thing I had read about the Austrian School until then had been 'Money, Bank Credit, and Economic Cycles,' a very good book by Jesús Huerta de Soto.”
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The book of Exodus
Discussed“that is an idea that failed with malus at the beginning of the 19th century a murderous idea that was also applied by the Egyptians against the Jews and this is famously recorded in the book of shamot or Exodus”
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Socialism
Discussed“in essence socialism and this is what mises condemns in his book socialism shows is that without private property prices cease to exist and therefore resources are diverted”
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The Road to Serfdom
Discussed“and he also pointed out and this is proven in Hayek's book The Road to serom that any Middle Ground solution is unstable in terms of capitalism meaning it tends towards socialism”
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Passing Bible
“This idea failed with Malthus at the beginning of the 19th century, and it was a murderous idea applied by the Egyptians against the Jews, famously recorded in the book of Exodus.”