Chile: the great transformation

Chile is frequently cited as a remarkable of neoliberal economic restructuring. In fact, countries around world are encouraged to follow Chilean model so that they can reap extraordinary benefits of rapid growth and expanding export markets associated with drastic economic reform in Chile. But Chilean experience is extremely complicated and contradictory.The international discussion on economic restructuring in Latin America often runs on two tracks: one dominated by consultants and scholars from English-speaking world and another in which Latin Americans talk to each other. This book attempts to bridge gap.Two outstanding Chilean scholars and activists present an original interpretation of Chilean experience. They cut through rhetoric surrounding the Chilean miracle and provide an integrated analysis of process of socioeconomic and political change that transformed their country between 1970 and 1990. In so doing, they discover not only a neoliberal revolution, but a capitalist revolution with roots far deeper than Pinochet reforms.The book provides a valuable resource for people around world who hope to understand principal success story of Latin American adjustment. Copublished with United Nations Research Institute for Social Development.