Poverty and the State: A Study of Argentina

The following may be a harbinger from the South of what's coming to the West. It was submitted to the Georgia Tech "Journal of Economics" in 1997. I can't imagine it being accepted today.

by John D. Breen

Georgia Institute of Technology

October 15, 1997

The history of Argentina is one of Indian settlement, colonial exploration, republic, military dictatorship, and, more recently, incipient capitalism.  Regrettably, it is also one of varying degrees of poverty, a condition which throughout the history of man has been ubiquitous to all people…