Word: chiles
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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THERE ARE MANY PEOPLE Arnold Harberger loves in Chile. He married a Chilean. By his count, 100 to 150 of his students are economists there. He consulted for the Central Bank of Chile during Alessandri Frei's rule in the '60s, and for the Pinochet government's electric company in the past two years. His ties with Chile go all the way back to the '50s, when the University of Chicago, his home base, started an exchange program with Catholic University in Santiago. Arnold Harberger sincerely loves Chile...
...story of his inability to see the truth of what his ties with the Pinochet dictatorship mean for the people of Chile is one of naivete, myopia and poignance. It is also the story of a man's deeply flawed moral judgement. In essence, Harberger puts the welfare if the people he knows and loves before the welfare of an entire people; he fails to imagine the suffering of people he does not know...
...once during any of his visits to Chile has Harberger publicly spoken out against the government's policy of torturing, exiling, jailing or executing its opposition. He has never raised a word of protest about the silenced voices of many of his colleagues...
...People that I love are in high positions in that government. Am I going to pull them down? Will that help Chile?" he asks...
HARBERGER CANNOT see himself as other people see him, yet the way other people see him would be critical if he became director of the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID). "I'm totally identified with the notion of constitutionality in Chile," he says. But throughout Latin America and within the community of American scholars who study international development, Harberger and his Chicago school of economics symbolize economic policies that require brutal tyranny...