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Foreign investments help promote the human rights trangressions of the Pinochet regime, John Womack '59, professor of history, said yesterday, adding that the foreign capital influx permits the Chilean government to institute "free market" economic policies unpopular among the country's wage earners, including the suppression of all attempts to organize labor unions...
Harberger's proposed appointment met strong resistance from professors and students who questioned both Harberger's association with the Chilean government and his policies which they say stress economic efficiency over social welfare...
Harberger's proposed appointment met strong resistance from professors and students who questioned both Harberger's association with the Chilean government and his brand of economics, which emphasizes practical over theoretical considerations. Harberger served as both as informal adviser and a paid consultant to military dictatorships in Latin America, particularly in Chile and Uruguay...
When two Hollywood producers planned a movie about the assassination of the Chilean Ambassador to the U.S., Ziegler/Diskant brought in Freelancer Taylor Branch and Attorney Eugene Propper, who had prosecuted the killer. The collaborators produced a five-page outline purchased by Viking for $175,000 and Warner Bros...
...HIID is a policy-making, not an academic, postion. Moreover, Marglin's critique of the Harberger appointment extends beyond the specifics of Harberger's career. "I don't think," says Marglin, "the real issue is Al Harberger or at what point Al Harberger officially became a representative of the Chilean electric company." Harberger's Chilean connections are significant only because Chile, the only country committed to a parliamentary route to socialism, "is not just another repressive regime but a symbol" of U.S. opposition to different forms of government...