Description
Narrates the story of the Chicago Boys in Chile - the Pinochet regime economists who were trained at the University of Chicago.
Reviews
"Valdes, who is deeply critical of the Chicago School for its lack of social content and its influence in Chilean public life, has written an important history of an elite group of economists and their allies among Chile's conservative business elite." American Historical Review
"Based on extensive research in the archives of the Ford and Rockefeller Foundations and the Agency of International Development, the book shows how the transmission of sconomic ideas was encouraged and fostered..." Foreign Affairs
"Pinochet's Economists gives a fascinating account of the conditions favoring ideological transfer, the specific events and actors involved in it, and the conditions that facilitated the initial flourishing and subsequent reproduction of neoliberalism in Chile." Latin American Research Review
"... a well-documented and well-argued book on the very interesting and important experience of the Chicago Boys, the international transfer of ideas, and the efforts of intellectuals to shape basic social and economic policies by using those ideas." The Annals of the American Academy
"...god examples of Americanists...whose work takes in more of the Amaericas." Brian Finnegan, American Studies International
Book Information
ISBN 9780521064408
Author Juan Gabriel Valdes
Format Paperback
Page Count 352
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 518g
Dimensions(mm) 230mm * 151mm * 20mm