Argentina’s economic failures helped shape Pope Francis’s anti-market attitudes. Ironically, the pontiff’s politico-economic outlook represents a variant of one early cause of those failures: the coercive collectivism of Juan Peron.
Understanding Pope Francis
Argentina, Economic Failure, and the Teología del Pueblo
By Samuel H. Gregg
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