The Chile Project: The Story of the Chicago Boys and the Downfall of Neoliberalism Edwards Sebastian
How Chile became home to the world's most radical free-market experiment--and what its downfall suggests about the fate of neoliberalism around the globeIn The Chile Project, Sebastian Edwards tells…
Specifikacia The Chile Project: The Story of the Chicago Boys and the Downfall of Neoliberalism Edwards Sebastian
How Chile became home to the world's most radical free-market experiment--and what its downfall suggests about the fate of neoliberalism around the globeIn The Chile Project, Sebastian Edwards tells the remarkable story of how the neoliberal economic model--installed in Chile during the Pinochet dictatorship and deepened during three decades of left-of-center governments--came to an end in 2021, when Gabriel Boric, a young former student activist, was elected president, vowing that "If Chile was the cradle of neoliberalism, it will also be its grave." More than a story about one Latin American country, The Chile Project is a behind-the-scenes history of the spread and consequences of the free-market thinking that dominated economic policymaking around the world in the second half of the twentieth century--but is now on the retreat.In 1955, the U.S.