Word: pinochets
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...decision to offer Professor Arnold Harberger the post of director of the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID). Harberger's ties with the repressive milatary regimes of Latin America are well-known, especially his ties with Chile. In addition to being a consultant to the illegal government of General Pinochet, Harberger's students, the "Chicago boys," hold key positions in that government. It is time for economists like Harberger to realize that economics cannot be looked at in a vaccum, and that what's best for the rich countries is by no means best for the poor. In addition, Harberger...
Professor Harberger told us, as he had told The Crimson earlier, that it was loyalty to a large group of friends, his former students, which took him to Chile after these friends had become important officials of the Pinochet regime. If Professor Harberger's loyalty to his friends is really as great as he claims, then it can be safely inferred that moving from Chicago to Cambridge will not diminish the strength of this feeling. And this means that Harberger's friends will become our friends, whether we like...
...government-owned company, but surely he must be aware that most people would not. In not owning up to this fact from the start, Harberger has put Harvard administrators--including Bok and HIID's current director, Lester Gordon, who had categorically stated Harberger never consulted for the Pinochet regime--in a difficult position...
...personal consequences of the Pinochet government's systematic repression of its opposition have touched even Harberger's life. His wife's brother, who served as Allende's cultural attache, is now a Chilean poet in exile. He publishes a literary magazine out of Los Angeles-- Literatura Chilena en El Exicilio-- and organizes efforts against the Pinochet government there. Harberger says the government branded his brother-in-law's passport with an L, which means that he can never return to his homeland while the Pinochet junta is in power...
...failing to speak out against repression in Chile and by praising the Pinochet regime's economic policies, Harberger strengthened the government's reputation with foreign credit institutions and foreign investors, for whom the word of the chairman of the economics department at a very prestigious American university carried great weight. On each trip of Chile, Chilean newspapers--notably EL Mercurio--ran huge spreads on what the American economist said...