This paper seeks to identify what worked and what didn't work to stop inflation in Argentina in the last seventy years. The approach is descriptive rather than theoretical and examines the relative performance of the only ten stabilization plans that, during the period 1952-2015, lasted at least...

Intro -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Dates, Comments, and Presidents -- Advice on Reading This Book -- Planning Versus Stagflation, 1973-1979 -- To the Lilies of the Field Who Toil Not -- Economics for Sybarites -- Why Economists...

Providing an integrated analysis of the event and its consequences, the chapters in the book consider the causes of the crisis, the response of the US government and International Monetary Fund, adjustments in the Korean monetary and fiscal policies, and the success of financial and corporate...