Pinochet's Economists

Pinochet's Economists
Title Pinochet's Economists PDF eBook
Author Juan Gabriel Valdes
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 358
Release 1995-08-17
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 9780521451468

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This book tells the extraordinary story of the Pinochet regime's economists, known as the "Chicago Boys". It explores the roots of their ideas and their sense of mission, following their training as economists at the Department of Economics at the University of Chicago. After their return to Chile, the "Chicago Boys" took advantage of the opportunity afforded them by the 1973 military coup to launch the first radical free market strategy implemented in a developing country. The ideological strength of their mission and the military authoritarianism of General Pinochet combined to transform an economy that, following the return to democracy, has stabilized and is now seen as a model for Latin America. This book, written by a political scientist, examines the neo-liberal economists and their perspective on the market. It also narrates the history of the transfer of ideas from the industrialized world to a developing country, which will be of particular interest to economists.

Pinochet's Economists

Pinochet's Economists
Title Pinochet's Economists PDF eBook
Author Juan Gabriel Valdes
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 0
Release 2008-06-05
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 9780521064408

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This book tells the extraordinary story of the Pinochet regime's economists, known as the Chicago Boys. Following their training as economists at the University of Chicago, they took advantage of the opportunity afforded them by the 1973 military coup to launch the first radical free market strategy implemented in a developing country. The ideological strength of their mission and the military authoritarianism of General Pinochet combined to transform an economy that, following the return to democracy, has stabilized and is now seen as a model for Latin America.

Pinochet's Economic Accomplices

Pinochet's Economic Accomplices
Title Pinochet's Economic Accomplices PDF eBook
Author Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
Pages 461
Release 2021-01-12
Genre History
ISBN 1793616507

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With a focus on Chile, Pinochet’s Economic Accomplices: An Unequal Country by Force uses theoretical arguments and empirical studies to argue that focusing on the behavior of economic actors of the dictatorship is crucial to achieve basic objectives in terms of justice, memory, reparation, and non-repetition measures. This book makes visible a number of cases of economic complicity with the Chilean dictatorship and explains their links with the radical inequalities the country has today while proposing a theoretical framework for their study. Scholars of Latin American studies, history, sociology, economics, business, and human rights will find this book particularly useful.

The Shock Doctrine

The Shock Doctrine
Title The Shock Doctrine PDF eBook
Author Naomi Klein
Publisher Metropolitan Books
Pages 721
Release 2010-04-01
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 1429919485

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The bestselling author of No Logo shows how the global "free market" has exploited crises and shock for three decades, from Chile to Iraq In her groundbreaking reporting, Naomi Klein introduced the term "disaster capitalism." Whether covering Baghdad after the U.S. occupation, Sri Lanka in the wake of the tsunami, or New Orleans post-Katrina, she witnessed something remarkably similar. People still reeling from catastrophe were being hit again, this time with economic "shock treatment," losing their land and homes to rapid-fire corporate makeovers. The Shock Doctrine retells the story of the most dominant ideology of our time, Milton Friedman's free market economic revolution. In contrast to the popular myth of this movement's peaceful global victory, Klein shows how it has exploited moments of shock and extreme violence in order to implement its economic policies in so many parts of the world from Latin America and Eastern Europe to South Africa, Russia, and Iraq. At the core of disaster capitalism is the use of cataclysmic events to advance radical privatization combined with the privatization of the disaster response itself. Klein argues that by capitalizing on crises, created by nature or war, the disaster capitalism complex now exists as a booming new economy, and is the violent culmination of a radical economic project that has been incubating for fifty years.

The Pinochet File

The Pinochet File
Title The Pinochet File PDF eBook
Author Peter Kornbluh
Publisher The New Press
Pages 485
Release 2016-04-12
Genre History
ISBN 1595589953

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Revised and updated: the definitive primary-source history of US involvement in General Pinochet’s Chilean coup—“the evidence is overwhelming” (The New Yorker). Published to commemorate the fortieth anniversary of General Augusto Pinochet’s infamous September 11, 1973, military coup in Chile, this updated edition of The Pinochet File reveals the shocking, formerly secret record of the US government’s complicity with atrocity in a foreign country. The book now completes the file on Pinochet’s story, detailing his multiple indictments between 2004 and his death on December 10, 2006, including the Riggs Bank scandal that revealed how the dictator had illegally squirreled away over $26 million in ill-begotten wealth in secret American bank accounts. When it was first released in hardcover, The Pinochet File contributed to the international campaign to hold Pinochet accountable for murder, torture, and terrorism. A new afterword tells the extraordinary story of Henry Kissinger’s attempt to undercut the book’s reception—efforts that generated a major scandal that led to a high-level resignation at the Council on Foreign Relations, illustrating the continued ability of the book to speak truth to power. “The Pinochet File should be considered the long awaited book of record on U.S. intervention in Chile . . . A crisp compelling narrative, almost a political thriller.” —Los Angeles Times

Economic Reforms in Chile

Economic Reforms in Chile
Title Economic Reforms in Chile PDF eBook
Author R. Ffrench-Davis
Publisher Springer
Pages 314
Release 2015-12-04
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 0230289657

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This book provides an in-depth analysis of neo-liberal and progressive economic reforms and policies implemented in Chile since the Pinochet dictatorship. The core thesis of the book is that there is not just 'one Chilean economic model', but that several have been in force since the coup of 1973.

Nation of Enemies Chile Under Pinochet

Nation of Enemies Chile Under Pinochet
Title Nation of Enemies Chile Under Pinochet PDF eBook
Author Pamela Constable
Publisher W. W. Norton & Company
Pages 372
Release 1993-05-04
Genre History
ISBN 9780393309850

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An account of the polarization of Chilean society under Augusto Pinochet and of Chile's return to democratic government.