Traditional right-wing elites blocked earlier Chilean liberalization attempts

Evidence

The prominent entrepreneur Jorge Alesssandri had been president from 1958 to 1964. His politics of “technocratic liberalism” (inflationary measures, liberalization of trade, devaluation) was frustrated by the traditional right and the “rentier protectionism” of the entrepreneurial class. — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1629

Categorization

• XREF: Shows that the obstacles to early Chilean neoliberalism were the traditionalist right and rentier interests, not left opposition — a dynamic that explains why liberalization required the Pinochet rupture. — connects to: Chilean neoliberalism cannot be explained by domestic factors alone. — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 1544