Axel Kaiser

Axel Phillip Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen (born 5 April 1981) is a Chilean writer, lawyer and political scientist.

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Kaiser and the second or maternal family name is Barents-Von Hohenhagen.
Axel Kaiser
Born (1981-04-05) 5 April 1981
Santiago, Chile
CitizenshipChile
OccupationAuthor[1]
Academic background
Alma materUniversidad Diego Portales (LL.B.)
University of Heidelberg (LL.M.)
University of Heidelberg (M.A. in American studies)
University of Heidelberg (Ph.D. in American studies)
ThesisThe American Philosophical Foundations of the Chilean Free Market Revolution. (2014)
Doctoral advisorKatja Patzel-Mattern, Martin Thunert y Detlef Junker
Academic work
DisciplinePolitical sciences
Philosophy
School or traditionAustrian School
InstitutionsUniversidad del Desarrollo
University of the Andes
Adolfo Ibáñez University
Stanford University

A Mont Pelerin Society member, he has collaborated as a columnist for El Mercurio[2] and Diario Financiero.[3] In 2013 and 2014 he published two articles in Forbes: "Is this the end of the Chilean economic miracle?" and "Michelle Bachelet is destroying Chile's free market institutions".[4] Some critics argued about the latter that Kaiser was overstating the impact of Michelle Bachelet's reforms.

In 2012, he led the creation of the think tank Fundación Para El Progreso, which is sponsored by Chilean entrepreneur Nicolás Ibáñez. The think tank's mission, as stated on its website, is "to promote a cultural change which would advance groundwork for a more prosper, free, humane, inclusive and peaceful society, through the promotion of liberal idean in fields of influence and the formation of young leaders who can guide Chile and Latin America through the road to progress".

An opinion poll, conducted by La Segunda newspaper in 2017, ranked Kaiser in seventh place among the most admired public intellectuals nationwide.[5] El Mercurio newspaper has described him as Chilean liberalism' main exponent.[6] He is also the first Latin American to obtain first place in Mont Pelerin Society's Hayek Essay Contest.[7]

He has written works such as: The Fatal Ignorance: The right-wing's Cultural Anorexia Against the Ideological Advance of Progressive Ideas,[8] The Tyranny of Equality, where he attempts to dismantle what he considers the fallacies of egalitarianism, and The Populist Deception, where he, alongside Guatemalan political scientist Gloria Álvarez criticizes the left-wing populism phenomena.[9]

Biography

Kaiser was born into a first-generation German-Chilean family. He is the son of Hans Christian Kaiser Wagner and Rosmarie Barents Haensgen, and brother of Vanessa Kaiser, an academic at the Universidad Autónoma de Chile and director of the libertarian think tank Centro de Estudios Libertarios.

While living in the Chilean capital, he completed a law degree at Universidad Diego Portales. He then traveled to Germany to pursue two master's degrees (one in Law and one in American Studies) and a PhD in American Studies in Heidelberg University, with the thesis The American Philosophical Foundations of the Chilean Free Market Revolution. Back in Chile, he was a full professor at Universidad del Desarrollo and the Universidad de los Andes, where he taught a course on Latin American Politics.

Books
  • El Chile que Viene (2007)
  • La Fatal Ignorancia (2009)
  • La Miseria del Intervencionismo (2012)
  • La Tiranía de la Igualdad (2015)[10]
  • El Engaño Populista junto con Gloria Álvarez (2016)
  • El Papa y el Capitalismo (2018)
  • La Neoinquisición (2020)

See also

References
  1. "La madre de todas las batallas". Libertad Digital (in Spanish). 10 March 2017. Retrieved 13 April 2020.
  2. Columnista Axel Kaiser – El Mercurio
  3. Columnista Axel Kaiser – DF
  4. Benedikter, Roland; Siepmann, Katja; Zlosilo, Miguel (2015). "The Fiscal Dimension: Greater Fairness at the Price of a Slowing Economy? The Ideological Debate Behind Bachelet's Envisaged Tax Reform". In Roland Benedikter, Katja Siepmann (ed.). Chile in Transition. Prospects and Challenges for Latin America's Forerunner of Development. Springer International Publishing. p. 137. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-17951-3. ISBN 978-3-319-17951-3.
  5. "Académico de la FAE, Alberto Mayol, fue escogido entre los intelectuales públicos más admirados". Facultad de Administración y Economía. Universidad de Santiago. 25 May 2016. Retrieved 13 April 2020.
  6. Benjamin, Blanco (13 June 2017). "Axel Kaiser, principal exponente del liberalismo en Chile: "Se puede ser liberal y contrario al aborto"". El Mercurio. Retrieved 13 April 2020.
  7. "Axel Kaiser gana concurso de ensayos Hakey Essay Contest". El Mercurio. 5 September 2014. p. 8. Retrieved 13 April 2020.
  8. Ortúzar, Pablo (15 December 2015). La tiranía de la igualdad. El Líbero.
  9. Delibes, Alicia (25 June 2016). Las mentiras del populismo. Libertad Digital.
  10. Carlos, Rodríguez Braun (10 March 2017). "La tiranía de la igualdad. Por qué el igualitarismo es inmoral y socava el progreso de nuestra sociedad" (in Spanish). Retrieved 7 April 2020.
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