Networked Information and Industrial Output: Evidence from Chile’s 1972 Truckers’ Strike
Amol Agrawal
Sebastian Edwards in this NBER paper: This paper examines Cybersyn — Chile’s cybernetic coordination system under Salvador Allende — during the October 1972 national truckers’ strike, which cut aggregate industrial output by roughly 9 percent. Using monthly data for twenty sectors and a calibrated CES–Leontief model, I construct sector-specific counterfactuals for the trucking shock. The […]