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The experience of Chile’s Salvador Allende illustrates how the private sphere and superpowers control investment and natural resource exploitation

A bumper crop of book reviews from the front lines of business and politics.

For poet Carlos Soto Román, the task is not to ask about the after with respect to memory but to think it as a field of counter-documentation—one that does not, unlike many oft-criticized sociological studies and Truth Commissions, instantiate an arbitrary finality and closure—that continues to enclose/foreclose on itself, only to contradictorily acknowledge these same historical fissures and cuts.

A new book examines how a group of University of Chicago–trained economists sought to remake the Chilean economy in the aftermath of 1973.

The Chilean Miracle of the 1990s is usually pointed to as a win for the Chicago School of economics, which advocated laissez faire capitalism, limited regulation, and cuts in government spending. But that was then, and this is the era of Bidenomics and a “post-liberal” New Right. Are free markets as

'The Chile Project' by Sebastian Edwards surveys neoliberalism's most polarizing experiment.

The Chile Project surveys neoliberalism's most polarizing experiment.

A new book tries to address the thorny, still evolving legacy of Chile’s radical free-market reformers.

A new book tries to address the thorny, still evolving legacy of Chile’s radical free-market reformers.

The Chile Project: The Story of the Chicago Boys and the Downfall of Neoliberalism, by Sebastian Edwards (Princeton University Press, 376 pp., $32) This year…