The Chile Project av Sebastian Edwards

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<p><b>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</b><br><br>In <i>The Chile Project</i>, 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, <i>The Chile Project</i> 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.<br><br>In 1955, the U.S. State Department launched the ¿Chile Project¿ to train Chilean economists at the University of Chicago,