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by Sherlock 4074 days ago
The Economist published an interesting report about that some months ago. The main takeaways were that (1) Argentine was rich, but lagged behind its money-peers in human development indexes such as literacy rates and (2) The elite from Argentina benefited from high food prices, so the rest of the country resented them, a brewing pot for populism.

But your point stands, monetary (or fiscal) policy was awful.