What is ahead for Chile, your own country, with its new right-of-center president, Sebastián Piñera?
Chile did very well during the 20 years of the left-of-center coalition. The coalition had its run, and alternation is part of the democratic game. So no one should be particularly worried about this; there’s a big sense of continuity. The new government basically argues that it’s possible to move in the same direction at a faster clip. It is highly possible that in 10 years Chile will have an income per capita not different from what Portugal has today. Portugal is sort of in the lower rungs of what we consider to be advanced countries. Of course, there’s a need to reignite “animal spirits” in Chile as well, and this is what the administration is trying to do. Whether they will be able to accomplish this is a different story. Your debut novel, “The Mystery of the Tanias,” did pretty well there, a bestseller. Are you going to write a second one? I just finished my second novel. It’s coming out in March in all of the Spanish-speaking world. Wow. Yeah, there aren’t too many economists wh
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