I've mentioned Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine from time to time in earlier posts in this blog. A considerable number of pages of that book describe the Milton Friedman experiment in Chile, brought to you by Augusto Pinochet - the murders and disappearances, the mass privatizations, the touted "miracle" which only benefited the few, and the mass poverty that experiment left in its still-present wake.
The video below contains an interview Amy Goodman had with Manfred Max-Neef, a Chilean economist. I find it very difficult to find anybody else who could be more of an expert on what happened in his homeland and it's after-effects, then an economist who was there where Augusto and Milton did their dirty work. It occupies the first half of the videocast, so just push play, and enjoy - if your conscience allows you to.
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