According to a persistent narrative, the ideas behind the free market revolution led by the so-called Chicago Boys in Chile were imported from the United States. This narrative is wrong. Free market liberalism has been a substantial part of Chiles intellectual and institutional tradition since the middle of the 1800s.
The Chicago Boys and the Revival of Classical Liberal Economics in Chile
By Axel Kaiser
This
article
appeared in
the Winter 2021/22 issue of The Independent Review.