Argentine people
Inflation — and hotness — make economists superstars in Argentina
He’s not a rock star or an actor, but Martín Lousteau is a celebrity in Argentina — even though he’s an economist. He’s also not alone. The quirky popularity of attractive economists in Argentina belies the country’s real, everyday problems with inflation.
China Past Due
It’s been awhile now since China’s Communist Party was in the business of running communal kitchens and collective farms, telling people who to marry, what to study and where to work, working to monitor their thoughts and speech even as it tried to micromanage a command economy. But exactly what does or should fall within […]
