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And yet, he just did the most impressive turn on a economy on the run towards a hyperinflation ever seen. There are a lot of things I don't like about Milei: t

And yet, he just did the most impressive turn on a economy on the run towards a hyperinflation ever seen. There are a lot of things I don't like about Milei: this memecoin event is bad, but so is his political friendship with open self declared fascists, him being a libertarian. He is a populist. But about macroeconomics he is doing, at least, good. Anyone who refuses to acknowledge that minimum is simply a hater that doesn't want an honest debate. You can even argue that he did good at macro but bad at micro, and there is a debate. But to call the man "sheer utter moron" in macroeconomics is just wrong. You are just argueing with the fallacy ad personam: instead of explaining us what policies were moronic, you say "the guy is a moron" and pretend that is enough to have a debate? And then you resort to the fallacy of association: Milei went to this University. I say this University is bad. Then Milei is also bad. Even 20 years after leaving the University and working in innumerable places (among them senior economist at HSBC), or authoring many academic papers. Turns out that https://www.topuniversities.com https://www.topuniversities.com places the University of Belgrano at 465 best in the world: not impressive, but still of the 132 listed Universities of Latin America Belgrano is ranked the 18th. If it is third rate and blacklisted, what about the next 114 Universities in the rank?

xinayder 2y ago
I don't see his feats as impressive when he was responsible for putting more than half of the population in poverty when he started. You can look at these numbers and say it's an improvement, but half of the population is still considered poor and the rate at which it's decreasing is not fast enough to consider Milei as a "genius".
- otherme123 2y ago
  That's not true! The poverty rate went from something like 40% to 55%. Now it's back again to 40%. Not good, but not horrific either.
  - Daishiman 2y ago
    And every economist worth their salt tells you that the number is based on an outdated basket of goods that underweights what has increased in price the most: household services and health care. Health insurance prices have tripled and household services more than doubled. Basic foodstuffs are now more expensive than they are in developed countries; a pack of pasta is cheaper Costco than a local supermarket.
Daishiman 2y ago
> And yet, he just did the most impressive turn on a economy on the run towards a hyperinflation ever seen. This is said by no one except Milei. No serious economist has claimed that we were going towards a hyperinflation. I have lived through hyperinflationary periods and that was not it. It is _trivial_ to disable inflation if you’re willing to wreck an economy. I’m sorry I have no intention to reply to this because you’re just making stuff up. Milei has not published a single academic paper and has been credibly accused by many of plagiarism. His h-index is 0. His doctorate is from a degree mill. University metrics are easy to game and about as useful as the Top 50 restaurants in the world. While you’re at it tell me where all those famous academics in UB are, because in years of perusing computer science academia in Argentina I literally never ran into one.
- brigandish 2y ago
  Research Gate lists several publications and two citations: https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/Javier-Gerardo-Milei-81529857 https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/Javier...
  - otherme123 2y ago
    And https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/autor?codigo=3854649 https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/autor?codigo=3854649 , where H=1 (not 0 like your parent says) He's not a great researcher, because he was not a researcher! He was more of a consultant, and published from time to time until around 2016, when he switched to another type of job.

xinayder 2y ago

I don't see his feats as impressive when he was responsible for putting more than half of the population in poverty when he started. You can look at these numbers and say it's an improvement, but half of the population is still considered poor and the rate at which it's decreasing is not fast enough to consider Milei as a "genius".

otherme123 2y ago
That's not true! The poverty rate went from something like 40% to 55%. Now it's back again to 40%. Not good, but not horrific either.
- Daishiman 2y ago
  And every economist worth their salt tells you that the number is based on an outdated basket of goods that underweights what has increased in price the most: household services and health care. Health insurance prices have tripled and household services more than doubled. Basic foodstuffs are now more expensive than they are in developed countries; a pack of pasta is cheaper Costco than a local supermarket.

Daishiman 2y ago

> And yet, he just did the most impressive turn on a economy on the run towards a hyperinflation ever seen. This is said by no one except Milei. No serious economist has claimed that we were going towards a hyperinflation. I have lived through hyperinflationary periods and that was not it. It is _trivial_ to disable inflation if you’re willing to wreck an economy. I’m sorry I have no intention to reply to this because you’re just making stuff up. Milei has not published a single academic paper and has been credibly accused by many of plagiarism. His h-index is 0. His doctorate is from a degree mill. University metrics are easy to game and about as useful as the Top 50 restaurants in the world. While you’re at it tell me where all those famous academics in UB are, because in years of perusing computer science academia in Argentina I literally never ran into one.

brigandish 2y ago
Research Gate lists several publications and two citations: https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/Javier-Gerardo-Milei-81529857 https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/Javier...
- otherme123 2y ago
  And https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/autor?codigo=3854649 https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/autor?codigo=3854649 , where H=1 (not 0 like your parent says) He's not a great researcher, because he was not a researcher! He was more of a consultant, and published from time to time until around 2016, when he switched to another type of job.