Pinochet Shock

Felipe González is Reader in Economics at Queen Mary University of London and Visiting Professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile.Mounu Prem is Associate Professor at the Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance and Adjunct Professor of Economics at Universidad del Rosario in Colombia.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. The different consequences of state-led repression.- 3. The disruption of higher education.- 4. Law Textbooks, Constitutional Interpretation, and the Neoliberal Transformation of Legal Culture in Chile.- 5. Local governments under dictatorship.- 6. Female political representation during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.- 7. The international dimensions of the Pinochet dictatorship.- 8. Exile and Political Survival in Pinochet’s Chile.- 9. Privatization and market-based policies.- 10. The evolution of business group during the Pinochet regime.- 11. Working people under dictatorship.- 12. Unraveling the Chilean miracle.- 13. Housing policies during the Pinochet dictatorship.- 14. Censorship and cultural control.- 15. Indigenous policies under the Pinochet regime.- 16. Crisis and social unrest.- 17. Epilogue.