Axel Kaiser

Axel Kaiser (born 4 July 1981) is a Chilean writer, lawyer and political scientist known for his work on free-market economics. Kaiser is a member of the Mont Pelerin Society and has published articles in Forbes and other publications. He is also the author of several books, including The Tyranny of Equality and The Populist Deception.

Biography Axel Kaiser was born to Hans Christian Kaiser Wagner and Rosmarie Barents Haensgen, a German-Chilean family.

His paternal grandparents were Rosemarie Wagner Schilling, a fourth-generation German-Chilean, and her husband, the German immigrant Friedrich Ernst Kaiser Richter, after Adolf Hitler's rise to power and before World War II, having foreseen its outbreak.

He married his wife in April 1939 His father was active in the National Party, serving as a youth leader. bz Leif Kaiser, chairman of the Chilean National Rifle Association, along with three other less prominent siblings. While living in the Chilean capital, he earned a Bachelor of Laws at Universidad Diego Portales. He qualified as a lawyer on 7 August 2007.

In 2009, Kaiser won a Fulbright Program scholarship and travelled to Germany to pursue two master's degrees (Master of Arts in International Law, mention Investments, Trade and Arbitration and another in American Studies) and a PhD in American Studies in Heidelberg University, with the thesis The American Philosophical Foundations of the Chilean Free Market Revolution.

Back in Chile, he was a full professor at Universidad del Desarrollo and the Universidad de los Andes, where he taught a course on Latin American Politics. A 2017 poll by La Segunda ranked him among the most admired public intellectuals in Chile.

Actress Susana Hidalgo alleged Kaiser used a copyright of hers without gaining permission by using one of her images of the 2019–2020 Chilean protests in the promotional posters of his talks in Mexico in February 2020.

Books El Chile que Viene (2007) La Fatal Ignorancia (2009) La Miseria del Intervencionismo (2012) La Tiranía de la Igualdad (2015) El Engaño Populista (2016), co-author with Gloria Álvarez El Papa y el Capitalismo (2018) La Neoinquisición (2020) The Street Economist: Fifteen economic lessons every citizen should know (El Economista Callejero) (2021) El odio a los ricos (2023), co-author with Rainer Zitelmann Parásitos mentales: Siete ideas progresistas que infectan nuestro pensamiento y sociedad (2024),

Novels El libro de Asgalard (Ediciones Minotauro, 2023),