A Chilean Model for Russia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4452226 |
|---|---|
| Authors | José Piñera, Jos Pinera (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 79 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 62 |
| Publication date | 2000-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Foreign Affairs (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0015-7120 • E-ISSN: 2327-7793 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/20049888 |
| OpenAlex | W2567180609 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
What Russia at the beginning of the twentieth century was not a Bolshevik Revolution but an American one. The tragedy of that great nation was that it got a Lenin instead of a Jefferson. Today, nearly ten years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia's new president, Vladimir Putin, has the historic opportunity to start the freedom revolution that his country missed last century. I had the opportunity to assess Russia's situation at the end of April, when I traveled to Moscow at the invitation of President Putin s newly appointed economic adviser, Andrei Illarionov. As a member of the team of economists that entered the government in Chile in the 1970s to produce a free-market economic revolution and a return to democratic rule, I was inevitably asked whether Russia needed a Pinochet and whether the country should introduce a economic model. My unequivocal answer was no to the first question and yes to the second. President Putin and his government must not identify the core of the Chilean experience with its historically specific interruption of political liberties. Such a break has happened in many other nations, and in almost all cases, their generals-turned-presidents have not only been a disaster for their countries but have also left a legacy of more state intervention and corruption. I told my Russian audiences that the replicable aspect of the Chilean model is the radical, compre
Democracy · Economic history · Government (linguistics) · Language change · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science) · Tragedy (event) · History · Law · Political and Social Dynamics in Chile and Latin America
| Citations per year | 0.21 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2002 - 2024 (23) |
| Highly cited | No |