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Philippe Sands: 38 Londres Street – On Impunity, Pinochet in England and a Nazi in Patagonia

    The Book Club | 16 April 2025 | 0h 57m | Listen Later | Podcasts | Spotify
    Interview with Philippe Sands about his book 38 Londres Street: On Impunity, Pinochet in England, and a Nazi in Patagonia. Discusses the legal and diplomatic tussle over the potential extradition of the former Chilean dictator General Pinochet; why the case was such an important one in legal history; the new evidence suggesting that the General’s release to Chile on health grounds may have been part of a behind-the-scenes stitch-up between the UK and Chilean governments; and the relationship between Pinochet and Walter Rauff, who was indicted for the mass murder of tens of thousands of Jews.

    Unraveling Latin America’s Turbulent Economic History with Sebastián Edwards

      unSILOed with Greg LaBlanc | 22 January 2025 | 0h 57m | Listen Later | Podcasts | Spotify
      Interview with Sebastián Edwards about his book The Chile Project: The Story of the Chicago Boys and the Downfall of Neoliberalism. Discusses the remarkable economic transformation in Chile over the last seven decades, the roots of neoliberalism and its global implications, the contemporary challenges facing Argentina, and what lessons can be gleaned from historical economic events like the U.S.’s default during the FDR era.

      See also the Capitalisn’t interview; the Human Progress interview with Axel Kaiser; and the Planet Money episodes on The Chicago Boys Part I and Part II.

      Key Lessons From The “Chicago Boys” Chile Experiment

        Capitalisn’t | 31 August 2023 | 0h 54m | Listen Later | Podcasts | Spotify
        Interview with Sebastian Edwards about his book The Chile Project: The Story of the Chicago Boys and the Downfall of Neoliberalism. Discusses the role of the University of Chicago trained free market economists who shaped economic policy and reforms in Chile during General Augusto Pinochet’s rule.

        Axel Kaiser: Political and Economic Changes in Chile

          The Human Progress Podcast | 11 March 2022 | 1h 05m | Listen Later | Podcasts | Spotify
          Interview with Axel Kaiser discussing the transformation of Chile’s economy from statist central planning to embracing economic freedom: opening the economy to free trade, removing import taxes, privatising state-run companies, stabilising inflation, creating an independent central bank, freeing prices and privatising social security.

          The Chicago Boys, Part II

            Planet Money | 12 April 2019 | 0h 27m | Listen Later | iTunes
            How a ruthless dictator, and a bunch of economists known as the Chicago Boys, took Chile from socialism to capitalism.

            The Chicago Boys, Part I

              Planet Money | 11 April 2019 | 0h 24m | Listen Later | iTunes
              In the late 1950’s and early ’60’s a handful of Chilean students went to study economics at the University of Chicago. What they learned changed their country.