📚 4 Books mentioned in "Javier Milei: President of Argentina - Freedom, Economics, and Corruption | Lex Fridman Podcast #453" of Lex Fridman Podcast

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.

During the podcast, Javier Milei refers to the book of Exodus from the Bible to illustrate the failures of Malthusian ideas and to highlight the historical suffering of the Jews inflicted by the Egyptians.

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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.

Javier Milei shares his experience reading 'Human Action' by Ludwig von Mises, describing how it profoundly impacted his understanding.

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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.

Javier Milei shares that prior to exploring the Austrian School of Economics further, he had read a very insightful book titled 'Money, Bank Credit, and Economic Cycles' by Jesús Huerta de Soto.

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He also pointed out, and this is proven in Hayek's book 'The Road to Serfdom,' that any middle ground solution is unstable in terms of capitalism, meaning it tends towards socialism.

Javier Milei references 'The Road to Serfdom' by Friedrich Hayek to illustrate that any middle ground solution between capitalism and socialism is inherently unstable and tends to shift towards socialism.

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