NOTE: This episode is an audio version of our video interview “Milei's election and the Argentinian economy: An interview with Matías Vernengo [Part 2]” from February 2, 2024. Click here to watch the original video.
In this interview, Executive Producer of the Security in Context Podcast Anita Fuentes talks with Matías Vernengo, about his recent book "Dollar Hegemony," and the economic circumstances that contributed to Javier Milei's election in Argentina. Matías Vernengo is a Professor of Economics at Bucknell University. He was formerly Senior Research Manager at the Central Bank of Argentina (BCRA), Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Utah, and Assistant Professor at Kalamazoo College and the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). He has been an external consultant to several United Nations organizations like the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), the International Labor Organization (ILO), the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). He has seven edited books, two books and more than one hundred and twenty articles published in scientific peer reviewed journals or book chapters. He specializes in macroeconomic issues for developing countries, in particular Latin America, international political economy and the history of economic thought. He is also the emeritus founding co-editor of the Review of Keynesian Economics (ROKE), and co-editor in chief of the New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Vernengo's book "Dollar Hegemony" can be found here: https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/dollar-hegemony-9781035320929.html For more please visit www.securityincontext.org or follow us on Twitter @SecurityContext
