Even Hayek’s own students urged him to abandon his Chile visit.

Evidence

Farrant, McPhail, and Berger, ‘Preventing the “Abuses” of Democracy’, pp. 517–18. Hayek’s own doctoral student, Ralph Raico, was among those who sent him Amnesty reports and called on him to reconsider his visit. — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 926

Categorization

  • XREF: Has a human face for the austerity debate — the internal dissent among libertarians over legitimizing Pinochet. — connects to: Hayek distinguished authoritarian from totalitarian regimes to exempt Chile from criticism — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 1590

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