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Pinochet's economists : the Chicago school in Chile

Title
Pinochet's economists : the Chicago school in Chile / Juan Gabriel Valdés.
Author
Valdés, Juan Gabriel.
Publication
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1995.

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xiii, 334 pages; 23 cm.
Summary
  • This book tells the extraordinary story of the Pinochet regime's economists, known as the "Chicago Boys." It explores the roots of their ideas and their sense of mission, following their training as economists at the Department of Economics at the University of Chicago. After their return to Chile, the "Chicago Boys" took advantage of the opportunity afforded them by the 1973 military coup to launch the first radical free market strategy implemented in a developing country.
  • The ideological strength of their mission and the military authoritarianism of General Pinochet combined to transform an economy that, following the return to democracy, has stabilized and is now seen as a model for Latin America.
  • This book, written by a political scientist, examines the neo-liberal economists and their perspective on the market. It also narrates the history of the transfer of ideas from the industrialized world to a developing country, which will be of particular interest to economists.
Series Statement
Historical perspectives on modern economics
Uniform Title
Historical perspectives on modern economics.
Subject
  • Chicago school of economics
  • Chile > Economic conditions > 1973-1988
  • Chile > Economic policy
Note
  • Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--Princeton.
Contents
1. Authoritarians without a project -- 2. Ideological transfer -- 3. The Chicago School of Economics -- 4. The actors of ideological transfer -- 5. The contracts between ICA, Chicago, and the Universidad Catolica -- 6. The Chile Project and the birth of the Chicago Boys -- 7. The implantation of the Chicago School in Chile -- 8. The export of the Chicago tradition -- 9. In search of politics -- 10. The elusive hegemony -- 11. Under the Unidad Popular.
ISBN
0521451469
LCCN
94028011
OCLC
  • 30812709
  • ocm30812709
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries