Tag: Chile

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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