Class Conflict and Economic Development in Chile, 1958-1973

Bibliographic Data

ID2827905
AuthorsMarkos Mamalakis (University of Wisconsin, corresponding author)
Year1981
Volume61
Issue1
Pages132
Publication date1981-02-01
Open AccessNo
TypeREVIEW
Review ofClass Conflict and Economic Development in Chile, 1958-1973, Barbara Stallings, 1978
VenueHispanic American Historical Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0018-2168 • E-ISSN: 1527-1900
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/2514282
OpenAlexW2005865905, W4232799846
LanguageEN

This account of the interplay of politics and economics in Chile in three successive administrations ending with the 1973 coup suggests that social class plays a major role in determining the outcome of economic policies in Latin America. As the author demonstrates, the nature of the class alliance that controls the state apparatus in Chile, together with the actions of foreign capital, determines not only the type of economic policies followed, but their outcomes as well. A comparison of the three regimes of Jorge Alessandri (1958-64), Eduardo Frei (1964-70), and Salvador Allende (1970-73) is especially important because they represent the main approaches to economic development available to all Third World countries today. The three regimes are compared in terms of policies on property relations, government expenditure, credit, investment, wages, prices, employment, and foreign investment. The outcomes are analyzed through data on economic growth and income distribution. In a concluding chapter, the author comments on the meaning of the Chilean experience for other countries

Class (philosophy) · Class conflict · Development (topology) · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Political science · Politics · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Law · Mathematics · Political and Social Dynamics in Chile and Latin America · Politics and Society in Latin America