This Thursday, the journalist Tomas Rodriguez revealed details of the investigation he has been carrying out for some time related to plagiarism in Javier Milei’s books, and which includes his latest publication —Capitalism, socialism and the neoclassical trap (2024), which the president presented this Wednesday at Luna Park—, where the President Argentine is accused of copy entire passages of researchers from Conicet and two Chilean economists.
In dialogue with the 750, Rodríguez said that he finds it “very mysterious” that Milei continues to commit plagiarism in his texts. “It is very striking, because we discovered them in Pandenomics for the first time (in 2022), and when it arrived The end of inflation there wasn’t, and I thought that as he was approaching being head of state he probably wouldn’t fall into the same situation, but In the middle of this new book there are plagiarisms back“, he said.
The first of the copies registered in Capitalism, socialism and the neoclassical trap went to a text written in 2000 by Veronica Mies and Raimundo Sotoassociate professors at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, titled Demand for money: Theory, evidence, results. The other plagiarism comes from a text written by Conicet researchers Julieta Albano, Ramiro López Ghio, Pablo E. Pérez, Julieta Salas and Fernando Toledo titled Economic Theories on the labor market II: neoclassical and new Keynesianspublished in 2007.
Last Tuesday, in his usual morning press conference, the spokesman Manuel Adorni He ignored the issue: “There is no type of plagiarism, everything is framed in the intellectual property law,” said the economist, who this Wednesday served as co-host in the proselytizing show that Milei gave at Luna Park.
In this sense, Rodríguez explained that, although there are no formal complaints for this crime, during the publication of Pandenomics (2022), Salvador Uribarri, a Mexican physicist who at that time was in poor health, gave an interview in Noticias magazine in which he revealed that he intended to file legal actions against the then national deputy of La Libertad Avanza. “He didn’t arrive, he died four months after speaking with us,” Rodríguez clarified.
For this reason, for the News journalist the relevance of the plagiarism investigation “has to do with credibility of someone who requests that a part of the population, or the entire population, listen to him, comply with him or give him his support.
“It sows some doubts about how clear the direction is for a person who sells himself all the time as an academic, and it allows us to ask ourselves some things: is the President aware of the plagiarism? Does the President really sees her As much as you say if you have to resort to plagiarism? “Does he know how to be an academic, does he know that he is quoted when he writes verbatim to another person,” he added.
“All of these questions are important because He is not just a person who plagiarized: he is a person who plagiarized, first he was a deputy and now he is head of state“, he stated.
