The discussions at the 1981 MPS meeting in Pinochet's Chile kept returning to the concept of freedom. Nevertheless, a critique of the lack of political freedom and democracy in Chile was notably absent from the contributions of MPS members Friedman, Tullock, Watrin, Frickhöffer, Hartwell, Irvine, and Shenfield, all of whom complimented Buchanan and Cáceres on the list of speakers (see CEP 1982). Frickhöffer (1982) affirmatively likened Pinochet's efforts to the post–World War II German efforts to secure a social market economy under Ludwig Erhard. Milton Friedman recommended that other developing countries follow the Chilean example of economic reorganization without mentioning the touchy subject of authoritarian rule.

Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, loc. 1589