Centro de Estudios Públicos

Centro de Estudios Públicos (Center of Public Studies) is a Chilean think tank.

CEP is based in Santiago and was founded in 1980.

Eliodoro Matte Larraín, the billionaire president of the Chilean forestry and paper company CMPC, is chairman of CEP.[1] The president is Harald Beyer, the Minister of Education of Chile from 2011 to 2013 until his impeachment for failing to address illegal for-profit activity in universities.[2][3]

Notable speakers

Lectures have been given by people including Mario Vargas Llosa, Hernando de Soto, Michael Novak, Robert Lucas, Eric Donald Hirsch, Eric Anderson, Friedrich Hayek, Margaret Thatcher, Václav Klaus, Peter Berger, Salman Rushdie and Milton Friedman.[4]

Selected publications
  • El Ladrillo: Bases de la Política Económica del Gobierno Militar Chileno
  • Medio Ambiente en Desarrollo
  • La Transformación Económica de Chile
  • ¿Qué Hacer Ahora? Propuestas para el Desarrollo
  • Las Escuelas que Tenemos
  • Mapudungun. El habla Mapuche
  • Reforma del Estado. Volumen I: Financiamiento Político
  • Reforma del Estado. Volumen II: Dirección Pública y Compras Públicas
  • La Izquierda Chilena 1969–1973. Documentos para el estudio de su línea estratégica
  • Los Mil días de Allende
gollark: Us foolish meatbags need oxygen and stable ~300K temperatures and food and water and stuff.
gollark: But what if the AIs colonize outer space? They can beat humans at it.
gollark: See, any game can be made more fun if you implement human-level intelligences which can create stuff like pyramid schemes.
gollark: Presumably if food is magically non-perishable, lots of people will just store it, and the price won't vary *that* much because the only extra cost is some storage.
gollark: But then they can't do fun stuff like run scams.

References
  1. "Eliodoro Matte Larraín". cecs. Retrieved 23 October 2015.
  2. "Harald Beyer Burgos" (in Spanish). Ministro de Educación – Gobierno de Chile. Archived from the original on 18 April 2013. Retrieved 28 February 2013.
  3. "Senado aprueba acusación constitucional y Beyer es destituido". Política – 24 horas. Archived from the original on 22 December 2014. Retrieved 10 September 2016.
  4. "About CEP". CEP. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 23 October 2015.

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