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This collection of works by Chilean experts explores the long term effects of neoliberalism. It questions Chile's status as a successful and exemplary democratic country. Dealing first with the circumstances that facilitated the establishment of the neoliberal experiment in Chile, it then analysizes the economic, social, environmental, political and human rights impacts of 35 consecutive years of neoliberal policies
Price: $30.00
Pages: 288
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Imprint: Haymarket Books
Series: Studies in Critical Social Sciences
Publication Date:
18 September 2012
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.02 in
ISBN: 9781608462063
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / General, HISTORY / Latin America / South America, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, History of the Americas, Human geography
Ximena de la Barra is an international consultant and former UNICEF Latin America Public Policy Advisor. She earlier formed part of the Allende Popular Unity government in Chile and of the first democratically elected local government in Madrid.
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
About the Authors
Prologue: The Tragedy that Was Dressed Up as a Miracle, Raul Sohr
Introduction, Ximena de la Barra
PART I. HOW THE NEOLIBERAL EXPERIMENT WAS FORCED UPON THE CHILEAN PEOPLE
1. Neoliberalism, a Counter-revolution in Chile, Manuel Riesco
2. Chile’s Neoliberal Reversion of Salvador Allende’s Copper Nationalization, Orlando Caputo and Graciela Galarce
3. Chile: Perpetual Transition under the Shadow of Pinochet, Roberto Garretón
4. Where was the Chile I had Left Behind?, Marta Harnecker
PART II. THE CUMULATIVE IMPACT OF 35 CONSECUTIVE YEARS OF NEOLIBERALISM IN CHILE
5. Growing Disparities and the Extreme Concentration of Wealth in Chile, José Cademartori
6. Health Care Ideology in Chile at the Turn of the 21st Century, Claudio Sepúlveda
7. The Struggle for Education and the Neoliberal Reaction, Rodrigo Cornejo, Juan González, Rodrigo Sánchez, Mario Sobarzo & the Opech Collective
8. Social Security or Plunder?, Manuel Riesco
9. The World Economic Crisis, Chile and the Free Trade Agreements, Orlando Caputo & Graciela Galarce
10. Chilean Social Movements in Confrontation with Neoliberalism, Mario Garcés
References
List of Authorities
Index
List of Abbreviations
About the Authors
Prologue: The Tragedy that Was Dressed Up as a Miracle, Raul Sohr
Introduction, Ximena de la Barra
PART I. HOW THE NEOLIBERAL EXPERIMENT WAS FORCED UPON THE CHILEAN PEOPLE
1. Neoliberalism, a Counter-revolution in Chile, Manuel Riesco
2. Chile’s Neoliberal Reversion of Salvador Allende’s Copper Nationalization, Orlando Caputo and Graciela Galarce
3. Chile: Perpetual Transition under the Shadow of Pinochet, Roberto Garretón
4. Where was the Chile I had Left Behind?, Marta Harnecker
PART II. THE CUMULATIVE IMPACT OF 35 CONSECUTIVE YEARS OF NEOLIBERALISM IN CHILE
5. Growing Disparities and the Extreme Concentration of Wealth in Chile, José Cademartori
6. Health Care Ideology in Chile at the Turn of the 21st Century, Claudio Sepúlveda
7. The Struggle for Education and the Neoliberal Reaction, Rodrigo Cornejo, Juan González, Rodrigo Sánchez, Mario Sobarzo & the Opech Collective
8. Social Security or Plunder?, Manuel Riesco
9. The World Economic Crisis, Chile and the Free Trade Agreements, Orlando Caputo & Graciela Galarce
10. Chilean Social Movements in Confrontation with Neoliberalism, Mario Garcés
References
List of Authorities
Index