Pinochet's Economists: The Chicago School in Chile.

This is a revised version of a book first published in Spanish as La escuela de Chicago: Operacion Chile (Buenos Aires, 1989). It explores the origins of the so-called Chicago Boys, a group of economists who provided General Pinochet with a revolutionary economic project. At the end, the neo-liberal model introduced by them profoundly transformed Chile's economic, institutional, and even cultural physiognomy.

Over the years the Chilean neo-liberal model has captured broad international attention. It has been highly prized by International Financial Institutions, while several Latin American countries have adopted economic and financial reforms based on this particular …