THE SOCIAL CONTRACT IN CHILE

FORMAL RIGIDITY AND SOCIAL FLUIDITY, OUR MIDDLE-INCOME TRAP

Authors

  • Guillermo Larrain Universidad de Chile

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22370/pe.2023.15.4032

Keywords:

social contract, formal institutions, informal institutions, reforms, welfare

Abstract

In Chile, the social contract has been under enormous stress in recent years. In fact, we have been discussing the formal rules of the game in a democratic society for a decade. Naturally, this has had a significant impact on economic activity: lower growth of the economy, employment opportunities, tax collection and expansion of social rights. The aim of this article is to discuss this in the light of the social contract theory, a historical perspective and the analysis of some examples.

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

Author Biography

Guillermo Larrain, Universidad de Chile

Facultad de Economía y Negocios. Universidad de Chile

References

ATRIA, F., G. LARRAIN, JM. BENAVENTE, J. COUSO y A. JOIGNANT (2013), El otro modelo. Del orden neoliberal al régimen de lo público, Editorial Debate.

AXELROD, R. (1984) The Evolution of Cooperation, Basic Books, New York.

BICCHIERI, C. (1996) The Grammar of Society, Cambridge University Press.

BINMORE, K. (1994), Playing Fair. Game Theory and the Social Contract, MIT Press

BOENINGER, E. (2008), La visión política del sistema electoral chileno (167-176). En FONTAINE, A., LARROULET, C., NAVARRETE, J. y WALKER, I. (eds.), Reforma del sistema electoral en Chile. Santiago: PNUD, CEP, CIEPLAN, Libertad y Desarrollo y ProyectAmerica.

GAMBOA y MORALES (2016), “Chile’s 2015 Electoral Reform: Changing the Rules of the Game”, Latin American Politics and Society, 58 (4): 126-144.

HAYEK, F (1944), Road to Serfdom. UK, Rouledge Press.

LARRAIN, G. (2021), La estabilidad del contrato social en Chile, Santiago, Fondo de Cultura Económica.

LARRAIN, G. (2023), “How to Stabilize Social Contracts? Ideas from the perspective of Voluntary Private Arrangements”, paper presentado en la Reunión del Grupo de Expertos del Departamento de Asuntos Económicos y Sociales de las Naciones Unidas (UNDESA).

LARRAIN, G., G. NEGRETTO y S. VOIGT (2023) “How not to Write a Constitution”, Public Choice, 194, 233-247.

NORTH, D. (2005), Understanding the Process of Economic Change, Princeton University Press.

OSTROM, E. (2005), Understanding Institutional Diversity, Princeton University Press.

ROSANVALLON, P. (2006), La contre-démocratie. La politique à l’âge de la défiance, Paris, Seuil.

RODRIK D. y S. STANTCHEVA (2021) “A Policy Matrix for Inclusive Prosperity” NBER Working Paper 28376.

ROUSSEAU, J.J. (1762), Le Contrat Social. Amsterdam, Marc-Michel Rey.

Downloads

Published

2023-12-26

How to Cite

Larrain, G. (2023). THE SOCIAL CONTRACT IN CHILE: FORMAL RIGIDITY AND SOCIAL FLUIDITY, OUR MIDDLE-INCOME TRAP. Economic Profiles, (15). https://doi.org/10.22370/pe.2023.15.4032

Issue

Perfiles Económicos n. 15 dic. 2023

Section

Artículos: Dossier 50 años de Economía chilena entre Dictadura y Democracia

License

Those authors who have publications with this journal accept the following terms:

1.- Authors will retain their copyright and grant the journal the right of first publication of their work, which will simultaneously be subject to the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.es which allows third parties to share, copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format.

  • Attribution: credit must be given appropriately, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes have been made. It may be done in any reasonable manner, but not in such a way as to suggest that the use is supported by the licensor.
  • Non-Commercial: No use of the material may be made for commercial purposes.
  • No Derivatives: Any remix, transformation or creation from the material, the modified material may not be distributed.
  • No Additional Restrictions: No legal terms or technological measures may be applied that legally restrict others from making any use permitted by the license.


2.- Authors may adopt other non-exclusive license agreements for distribution of the published version of the work (e.g., depositing it in an institutional telematic archive or publishing it in a monographic volume) as long as the initial publication in this journal is indicated.


3.- Authors are allowed and encouraged to disseminate their work through the Internet (e.g., in institutional telematic archives or on their web page) before and during the submission process, which can produce interesting exchanges and increase citations of the published work. (See The Open Access Effect).