“The other day they asked me: you work 16 hours a day, how do you write?” said Javier Milei on Wednesday night from Luna Park, regarding the presentation of his new book. The answer, for some, arose spontaneously: it is in not one, but (at least) the two plagiarisms that until now were found in the pages of “Capitalism, socialism and the neoclassical trap.” As revealed by Noticias Magazine, the text contains copies of entire paragraphs: both from a text by a Chilean economist and from a Conicet researcher.
The first of the president’s copies was the text written in 2000 by Verónica Mies and Raimundo Soto, associate professors at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, titled “Demand for money: Theory, evidence, results.” The other was written by Conicet researchers Julieta Albano, Ramiro López Ghio, Pablo E. Pérez, Julieta Salas and Fernando Toledo, and is titled “Economic Theories on the labor market II: neoclassical and new Keynesians”, published in 2007.
With his best stone face, in his press conference on Tuesday, spokesperson Manuel Adorni tried to deny the plagiarism. “There is no type of plagiarism, everything is framed in intellectual property law,” he said.
However, it is not the first time that Milei has relapsed into this type of practice. According to Juan Luis González, author of the unauthorized biography El loco, which has just been released in Spain, plagiarism is the order of the day in almost all of the president’s works. In the book Pandenomics there were already thefts from the Studocu page and two other Chilean economists.
