The week of Javier Milei It was furious. The president carried Domingo Cavallo, made his daughter, Sonia, and the head of Anses, Mariano de los Heros, attacked the artists María Becerra and Lali Espósito, and even had time for some of his old teachers. Is that through one of his favorite drivers, Alejandro Fantino, the libertarian expressed his anger against Roberto Frenkel and José María Fratelli, Two economists who know a lot, and also against Martín Rapetti and Sebastián Katz. “Did you see when Javier speaks of ‘Econochantas’? Well, he’s talking about these, ”he said in his Neura channel, ensuring that these two professionals from the Center for State and Society Studies (CEDES) were pushing a devaluation for personal benefit. “Their reports are in dollars and with three monthly reports, a yacht in Rimini (Italy) is rented and put four odalisks to dance,” the driver completed.
The accusations unleashed a scandal. Economists of all branches went out to support the attacked, even some of the ruling party, such as Lucas Llach, which ended up causing some short circuit doors to the government. But the curious thing about the crossing is not that. Following the incident this media communicated with Frenkel, who together with Fratelli had been milei teachers. And here the other story begins.
The president told tens of occasions the “mastery” he studied with both. “As post-Keynesian I decided to do a master’s degree in IDES (Institute for Economic and Social Development), where what I did was study Keynesianism thoroughly. There, through its excellent professors, José María Fanelli and Roberto Frenkel studied different variants of Keynesianism, ”says Milei in his autobiographical book – which, strikingly, also has plagiarism -“ The path of the libertarian ”. In 2022, in a report for the profile newspaper, he also talked about the subject. “My first mastery was in the IDES, the Institute for Economic and Social Development,” he said in that note. However, what he attended in the IDES was not a master’s degree, but a postgraduate degree, as one of his headlines confirmed to this media. The difference may seem subtle, but the first has more time load, requires more academic certification and has, therefore, more status. “Masters require 60 to 120 ECTS credits, normally studied in one or two academic years, together with the presentation of a master’s final work. A postgraduate degree is distinguished by offering a high degree of specialization and/or updating in a discipline or more concrete scope than a master’s degree, normally with a clear professionalizing orientation.
In fact, in some old publications, in which he put his curriculum, Milei did clarify that what he had completed in the IDES had been a postgraduate degree. However, the libertarian not only used that “false” mastery to bulge his curriculum, but even took a sheet in some crosses. “I tell you so that you are aware, in my mastery in the IDES I had to study hard Keynesianism (not the precarious you have recited),” he said in October 2019, in a virtual fight. “First make you one mastery In economic theory that would be serious, ”he told a forist at a twee October 31 of that year. “Finish your mastery first,” he told the then Minister of Economy, Guido Lorenzino, in October 2015. In 2016 a user asked him to recommend “a mastery”: “I made one in the IDES, well Keynesian”, Le. replied.
It is not the first controversy in the academic career of the libertarian. In addition to the repeated cases of plagiarism that this medium uncovered, the nation discovered that the other postgraduate degree that said, from the Di Tella University, was not such: that specialization had never finished, since I had never delivered the thesis, so that It is not considered to be received. Now add another stain to the tiger.
