Is There More Than Economic Ideas in Latin America Than the Chicago Boys?

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When we think about economists in chile. We typically think not of the sepalinos, but rather of the infamous ne liberal chicago boys who played such a key role in the pinochet dictatorship. But you writet, sponsored by the ford foundation, the infamous cago boys struggled to unseat sepelinos on their home turf and were only successful after a sweeping realignment of political forces that used coercion and violence. How do we differently, or better understand the story of the ch Chicago Boys?

Historian Margarita Fajardo on her book The World That Latin America Created: The United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America in the Development Era. Fajardo discusses the Latin American economists at the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (CEPAL) who conceptualized the division of the global economy between center and periphery, and how that later gave rise to dependency theory and world systems theory. Plus Cuban Revolution and the Alliance for Progress, Allende's democratic road to socialism and right-wing coups in Chile and Brazil—and more. Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig