Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/149724 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
CHOPE Working Paper No. 2014-12
Publisher: 
Duke University, Center for the History of Political Economy (CHOPE), Durham, NC
Abstract: 
F. A. Hayek took two trips to Chile, the first in 1977, the second in 1981. The visits were controversial. On the first trip he met with Genera l Augusto Pinochet, who had led a coup that overthrew Salvador Allende in 1973. During his 1981 visit, Ha yek gave interviews that were published in the Chilean newspaper El Mercurio and in which he discussed authoritarian regimes and the problem of unlimited democracy. After each trip, he complained th at the western press had painted an unfair picture of the economic situation under the Pinochet regime. Drawing on archival material, interviews, and past research, we provide a full account of this controversial episode in Hayek's life.
Subjects: 
F. A. Hayek
Chile
Chicago Boys
Augusto Pinochet
Salvador Allende
Milton Friedman
Centro de Estudios Publicos (CEP)
El Mercurio
JEL: 
B1
B2
B25
B21
B3
B4
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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