Chile and the Neoliberal Trap : The Post-Pinochet Era (Paperback)

1. From its past and present, Chile is poised to provide a better future for its people; 2. A brief history: the role of authoritarian conditions and crises in shaping political and economic orders in Chile; 3. Cementing Neoliberalism: a cultural revolution for the free market; 4. Economic-growth and macroeconomic performance in the 1990s and 2000s under four concertacion governments; 5. The social record of the post-Pinochet administrations: poverty declines but high inequality persists; 6. The social policies of the 1990s and 2000s: Neoliberalism tempered with social protection?; 7. Concentration of economic power: the new elites of the super-rich, oligopolistic markets and dual productive structures; 8. Limits to Chilean democracy and the governance for capital; 9. Summary and issues for the future.