Farrant, Andrew; McPhail, Edward - In: Review of Political Economy 26 (2014) 3, pp. 331-348
Commenting on the Pinochet regime, Friedrich Hayek famously claimed in 1981 that he would prefer a 'liberal' dictator to 'democratic government lacking liberalism.' Hayek's defense of a transitional dictatorship in Chile was not an impromptu response. In late 1960, in a little known BBC radio...