The Chilean economic model has been widely studied both as a pioneering experiment in neoliberal policies and in regard to the growing social mobilisation against inequalities it has provoked. Insufficient attention has been paid, however, to the role of intellectuals in justifying and criticising the model. This article examines cultural battles over the economic model among the country's main columnists between 2010 and 2017, analysing debates as to the model's virtues and vices, achievements and failures. It shows how debate surrounding the model is highly reactive to current political events, yet occurs in somewhat of an elite bubble, centred on conceptual discussions and daily political events that tend to be dissociated from popular concerns.

智利的经济模式作为新自由主义政策的开创性实验以及针对其引发的不平等现象日益增长的社会动员而受到了广泛的研究。然而，知识分子在证明和批评这一模式方面的作用却没有得到足够的重视。本文考察了 2010 年至 2017 年间该国主要专栏作家之间围绕经济模式的文化争论，分析了有关该模式的优点和缺点、成就和失败的争论。它表明围绕该模型的辩论如何对当前的政治事件高度反应，但却发生在某种程度上的精英泡沫中，集中于概念性讨论和往往与公众关注点脱节的日常政治事件。