Description: Chile Project : The Story of the Chicago Boys and the Downfall of Neoliberalism, Hardcover by Edwards, Sebastian, ISBN 069120862X, ISBN-13 9780691208626, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US 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 globe In 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 . State Department launched the “Chile Project” to train Chilean economists at the University of Chicago, home of the libertarian Milton Friedman. After General Augusto Pinochet overthrew socialist president Salvador Allende in 1973, Chile’s “Chicago boys” implemented the purest neoliberal model in the world for the next seventeen years, undertaking a sweeping package of privatization and deregulation, creating a modern capitalist economy, and sparking talk of a “Chilean miracle.” But under the veneer of success, a profound dissatisfaction with the vast inequalities caused by neoliberalism was growing. In 2019, protests erupted throughout the country, and in 2022 Boric began his presidency with a clear mandate: to end neoliberalismo. In telling the fascinating story of the Chicago Boys and Chile’s free-market revolution, The Chile Project provides an important new perspective on the history of neoliberalism and its global decline today.
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Number of Pages: 376 Pages
Publication Name: Chile Project : the Story of the Chicago Boys and the Downfall of Neoliberalism
Language: English
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Item Height: 1.4 in
Subject: Political Economy, Economic History, Public Policy / Economic Policy
Publication Year: 2023
Item Weight: 26.8 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Political Science, Business & Economics
Author: Sebastian Edwards
Item Length: 9.5 in
Item Width: 6.4 in
Format: Hardcover
