The Chile Project: The Story of the Chicago Boys and the Downfall of Neoliberalism, by Sebastian Edwards, Princeton University Press, 376 pages, $32
In 1973, Sebastián Edwards was a supporter of Chile's socialist president, Salvador Allende. He was, he recalls, an assistant to the "director of costs and prices" at the Chilean Directorate of Industry and Commerce, where his unit "oversaw every controlled price in the country." After Augusto Pinochet deposed Allende in a coup that year, Edwards "opposed the dictatorship and fled the country in 1977 because of it."
