Sorry, David. I didn't say Bryan made mistakes. I'm saying he is missing details of relevant past experiences --the ones that Gordon Tullock used to pay attention when trying to understand what happened and what may happen. Those details are related to how politicians had attempted to get and keep power, and indeed their strategies are e…
Sorry, David. I didn't say Bryan made mistakes. I'm saying he is missing details of relevant past experiences --the ones that Gordon Tullock used to pay attention when trying to understand what happened and what may happen. Those details are related to how politicians had attempted to get and keep power, and indeed their strategies are expected to take into account the field in which they are playing. Since I cannot tell you all the experiences of the past 100 years, I selected the one that could be most relevant today.
In addition, since I have been very familiar with Chile history over the past 51 years, I can tell you that what happened during Pinochet is irrelevant to what may happen to Milei (btw, a few days ago the Pinochet's Minister responsible for designing and implementing the fiscal reform of 1975 that facilitated all the other reforms passed away, and it was an opportunity to share ideas about that reform with a couple of old friends and how different that experience was from what is going on in Argentina).
Sorry, David. I didn't say Bryan made mistakes. I'm saying he is missing details of relevant past experiences --the ones that Gordon Tullock used to pay attention when trying to understand what happened and what may happen. Those details are related to how politicians had attempted to get and keep power, and indeed their strategies are expected to take into account the field in which they are playing. Since I cannot tell you all the experiences of the past 100 years, I selected the one that could be most relevant today.
In addition, since I have been very familiar with Chile history over the past 51 years, I can tell you that what happened during Pinochet is irrelevant to what may happen to Milei (btw, a few days ago the Pinochet's Minister responsible for designing and implementing the fiscal reform of 1975 that facilitated all the other reforms passed away, and it was an opportunity to share ideas about that reform with a couple of old friends and how different that experience was from what is going on in Argentina).