Pandemics and the role of governments by Vito Tanzi published by Akademiai Kiad (6/2021).
The recent pandemic has raised fundamental questions about the traditional role of government. That role has stressed the pursuit of national interests and identified the tools that governments should use in the pursuit of those interests. While over the past century the desirable role of the state was amended to include new objectives (such as equity and stabilization) the focus had remained national interests. This paper argues that this national focus has become increasingly anachronistic and damaging.
Argentina, from Peron to Macri: An Economic Chronicle by Vito Tanzi published by Jorge Pinto Books.
The first edition of this book, published in 2007, took the readers up to the period shortly after the debt default. After 2002, Argentina experienced some exciting and dramatic years and three different administrations. The last 15 years have continued to exhibit that typically Argentine capacity: to invent novel economic policies and to surprise an observer. This new, updated, version describes, in simple terms, the main economic developments that took place in Argentina from 2002 until the end of 2017. It highlights the role that three different administrations played and the economic difficulties that remain. The description is kept simple, to allow non-economists interested in Argentina to understand what happened in these years in this fascinating country.
