Javier Milei is a rock star.
The president of Argentina was, in fact, in a Rolling Stones cover band as a teen.
But now he plays stadiums — like Buenos Aires’ 8,400-capacity Luna Park — as a political phenomenon, a charismatic cross between Donald Trump and Milton Friedman.
Except that Milei, a former economics professor himself, is more free-market than Friedman, in theory at least.
He’s a devotee of the most notoriously “intransigent” free-market thinker of them all, the great Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises.
As Mises’ masterwork, the nearly 900-page opus “Human Action,” turns 75 this year, Milei has made a cover version of sorts: his own new book, “Capitalism, Socialism, and the Neoclassical Trap.”
He took to the stage at Luna Park to promote it after the Buenos Aires International Book Fair canceled him in retaliation for cuts…
