Argentina’s economic failures helped shape Pope Francis’s anti-market attitudes. Ironically, the pontiff’s politico-economic outlook represents a variant of one early cause of those failures: the coercive collectivism of Juan Peron.
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Samuel Gregg is the Friedrich Hayek Chair in Economics and Economic History at the American Institute for Economic Research.
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