Milei’s plagiarism: echoes of the NEWS investigation

Journalist Paul Duggan interviewed Tomás Rodríguez, a journalist for News Magazine who together with Juan Luis Gonzalez, have just published a note about new plagiarisms committed by the deputy for La Libertad Avanza, javier milei. This time in the foreword that he wrote for the book “4000 years of wage and price controls” of Robert L.Schuettinger Y Eamonn F. Butler (Union Publishing).

In the prologue – the original dates from 1979 – the economist copied several paragraphs from the old prologue of the original edition of the book, which was in charge of David L. Meiselman. Duggan did not hesitate to describe “blackmail” and “unpunished” to the deputy as a result of the cases of plagiarism. “A great economist does not plagiarize, he does not copy ideas without telling his sources. He does not do this type of atrocities, ”sentenced the journalist. And he was encouraged to go further: “This plagiarism shows Milei’s psychiatric problem,” he shot.

“It’s a little striking that in a 6-page prologue someone, any person, needs to plagiarize another author,” Rodriguez said. “Much of Milei’s symbolic or political capital has been built in relation to being a person he knows: an academic, who is very knowledgeable about the things he explains, who explains to others how things are. And this somewhat undermines his control over that capital ”; she added.

Last year, NOTICIAS discovered that the economist had plagiarized 6 authors, without quotation marks or direct or indirect quotes, in his book “Pandenomics.” The investigation carried out by this means led to a complaint that the Mexican physicist Salvador Uribarri The libertarian deputy made him when he found out that his work “The mathematics of epidemics: the case of Mexico 2009 and others” had been plagiarized. That is why the influencer and lawyer Carlos Maslatón, a former ally of Milei, used his Twitter account to refer to the investigation of this medium.

Before that fact, the “Medium” site had revealed that several of Milei’s publications in Infobae and in El Cronista had paragraphs copied from books by canonical liberal authors such as Murray Rothbard, Friedrich Von Hayek or Ludwig Von Mises. In fact, as a result of the new note published by NOTICIAS, the journalist Lucia Martinez, from the Checked site, tweeted about it. Checked was, together with the Medium site, one of the first spaces where the plagiarisms that Milei carried out in her columns began to be exposed. “They found texts signed by Milei that had already been published before by other authors (?) In 2021 we found several similar examples in his columns in El Cronista and Infobae,” Martínez said.

by RN

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