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

Timothy David Clark

Third World Quarterly, 2017, vol. 38, issue 6, 1350-1365

Abstract: 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.

Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2016.1268906

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