[GabrielBen]

This is a common argentinian conception, and it is a big misconception. Gov corruption is a lot worse in the united states. It's just that corruption is not a 1-1 correlation with the success of an economy.

Argentina has a poor economy because it is a half-capitalist half-socialist country.

[vkou]

Many of the European social democracies are also half-cap, half-soc countries, and they have far fewer economic problems.

They have a very different monetary system, though, and some of them are successful because the Euro lets them export their economic problems to their poorer neighbours.

[GabrielBen]

Argentina is way more socialist as measured in a controlled economy than europeans - some taxes are higher than 80% of net income and often exceeding gross income as well.

It is also way more capitalist than the US by having a large part of the population paying less than 5% income taxes.

The country is hard enough to explain without the constraints of a browser textbox.