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Rethinking Chile’s ‘Chicago Boys’: neoliberal technocrats or revolutionary vanguard?

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The term ‘Chicago Boys’ remains closely associated with the orthodox neoliberal adjustment implemented in Chile by the Pinochet dictatorship. The conventional portrayal of the Chicago Boys is of a group of US-trained, technocratic economists who institutionalised neoliberal principles and technocratic prerogatives in public policymaking in Chile. This article will contend the Chicago Boys were much more than neoliberal technocrats: they were a revolutionary vanguard that designed and led a capitalist revolution and radically altered the material and ideological foundations of the nation.

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  • Timothy David Clark, 2017. "Rethinking Chile’s ‘Chicago Boys’: neoliberal technocrats or revolutionary vanguard?," Third World Quarterly, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 38(6), pages 1350-1365, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:ctwqxx:v:38:y:2017:i:6:p:1350-1365
    DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2016.1268906
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