Critical Acclaim for This Book; Abstract; Foreword by Ned Strong, Harvard University, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) ; Preface by Larry Birns, Council on Hemispheric Affairs, Washington, D.C.; Contents; About the Authors; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: The Economic Dimension: A Nation Grown by Means of Neoliberal Policies; A Recipe for Success from Chicago; Promotion of Free-Market Ideology; Economic Progress Based on "Liberalization from Above"; 2011: A Surprising Protest; The Reasons, Part I: Disputed Bipartisan Consensus and Growing Inequality. The Reasons II: Social Discontent Caused by Rising Prices, Economization of Everyday Life, and Financial Pressure "The Man on the Street": Rather Sceptical About the Future; Ambiguous Evaluations of Chile's Current Society; The Core Mechanism: "Chile Is Growing, But Not Developing"?; Propagation of "Free Market" Ethics and Power Concentration; What Is the "Real" Base of Chile's Economic Growth?; Omnipresence of the Credit Business; The Forest Industry: A National Good?; Impact on Indigenous Territories; What Is the Social Outreach of These Policies?; "We Are the Owners of Chile." "Nature Based" Capitalism and the Student Movement Since 2011What Were the Effects?; Conclusion: Towards a Pondered Discourse on Development, Distribution, and Participation-Elements for Reform; Alternative Discourses in the Political Landscape Since the Electoral Campaign for the Elections of 2013: "Political Humanism" as a "Third Way Strategy" Between the Left and the Right?; What Are the Perspectives?; Chile's Desirable "Grand Strategy" for the Coming Years: Integrate Public and Private Fields Through Socio-Economic Differentiation. Outlook: Chile After the End of the "Third World"- Which direction: USA, Europe, or China?Chapter 3: The Cultural Dimension: A Nation in Search of Identity Between the Competing Narratives of the "Center-Right" and the "Center-Left"; Socio-Cultural Narratives Are Becoming Political Factors of Increasing Importance; A Year of Global Media Attention to Chile: 2010; Chilean Miners as Global Heroes; How to Create a Socio-Cultural Narrative in the Globalized "Attention Economy." The "Miracle of Atacama": Facilitation of Chile's Imagined Identity as a Unified, Efficient, and Progressive Country "It's a Fest for Chile and It's Perfect"; Center-Rightist Values Brought Forward by Means of a Rescue Operation; Reworking Cultural Identity; Transforming an Accident into an International Political Triumph; A "Meta-Party" Strategy?; Sealing Strategic Alliances; An Unfortunate Slip of the Tongue; A Remarkable Success; After the Fest, Soberness Returns: Competing Narratives on the "Miracle of the Miners"-And Thus, of the "Miracle of Chile." The Accident: No Romance, But an Ongoing Problem of Neglect of the Working Class by the Chilean System- And Thus of Inequality?