According to a persistent narrative, the ideas behind the free market revolution led by the so-called “Chicago Boys” in Chile were imported from the United States. This narrative is wrong. Free market liberalism has been a substantial part of Chile’s intellectual and institutional tradition since the middle of the 1800s.
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Axel Kaiser is President of Fundación Para el Progreso and Director of the Friedrich Hayek Chair at the Adolfo Ibáñez University in Santiago, Chile. His books include The Fatal Ignorance: The Right-Wing's Cultural Anorexia Against the Ideological Advance of Progressive Ideas, The Tyranny of Equality, and The Populist Deception.
