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Chicago Boys
The
Chicago Boys
(c.
1970s
) were a group of
economists
, trained at the
University of Chicago
, who were later influential in
Chile
, under the administration of
Augusto Pinochet
. The group was influenced by
Arnold Harshberger[?]
's
Latin American Finance Workshop[?]
,
Milton Friedman
's
Money and Banking Workshop[?]
, and the
Chicago school
of economics.
Journalist
Greg Palast
claims to have infiltrated this group during the early
1970s
, while working undercover for
electric
and
steel
unions
.
See also:
Miracle of Chile
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