La constitución económica chilena: Un ensayo en (DE) Construcción

Abstract

The purpose of this essay is to debunk the dominant narrative about the structure of the Chilean Economic Constitution associated with the presumed existence of a subsidiarity principle regarding State’s intervention in economic activities. For this purpose, a critical analysis of the conventional approach to understand the Constitutional standards governing State’s entrepreneurial activities is complemented with a reinterpretation of the Constitutional provisions concerning the autonomy of intermediate groups and the State’s purpose to service the human person, sustained in exegetic and normative grounds, as well as in an analysis of its latest constitutional practice. The essay seeks to articulate, in this way, a more attractive understanding of the Chilean Economic Constitution than the one entrenched in our collective unconscious related to the State’s subsidiarity imaginary, due both to its explanatory merits and normative commitments.