Pinochet's Economists: The Chicago School of Economics in Chile (Historical Perspectives on Modern Economics)

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Author: Juan Gabriel Valdes

Pages: 352

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Publication Date: June 5,2008

Category: Business Development



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This book tells the extraordinary story of the Pinochet regime’s economists, referred to as the Chicago Boys. The ideological power of their objective and the armed service authoritarianism of General Pinochet mixed to transform an economic climate that, following the go back to democracy, provides stabilized and is currently regarded as a model for Latin America. Following their teaching as economists at the University of Chicago, they had taken advantage of the chance afforded them by the 1973 armed service coup to release the first radical free of charge market strategy applied in a developing nation.


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