Chicago Boy

English +s Noun Chicago Boy en economics historical mostly in the plural Any of a group of Chilean economists prominent around the 1970s and 1980s, the majority of whom trained at the Department of Economics of the University of Chicago under Milton Friedman and Arnold Harberger, or at its affiliate in the economics department at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. en Shirley Christian Free-Market Lessons Of Chile's 'Chicago Boys' The New York Times 1990-10-08 https://www.nytimes.com/1990/10/08/business/international-report-free-market-lessons-of-chile-s-chicago-boys.html 0362-4331 The Chicago Boys label came from the fact that Mr. Baraona and several others who drafted and managed the program to turn Chile away from statism studied economics at the University of Chicago and became disciples of Milton Friedman's free-market faith. https://web.archive.org/web/20240413201740/https://www.nytimes.com/1990/10/08/business/international-report-free-market-lessons-of-chile-s-chicago-boys.html 13 April 2024 en The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions 2017 w:Jason Hickel 9781473539273 William Heinemann London The Chile Experiment Eventually things got so bad that Pinochet was forced to respond by firing many of the Chicago Boys and renationalising many of the privatised companies and banks. en terms derived from toponyms