Friedman Pinochet. According to stephens the radical free market policies prescribed to chilean dictator augusto pinochet by milton friedman and his infamous chicago boys are the reason chile is a prosperous. Augusto pinochet ugarte el presidente edificio diego portales santiago chile dear mr.
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As for chile pinochet appointed a succession of chicago boys to senior economic posts. Friedman himself couldn t decide whether to be amused or annoyed by the obloquies. Friedman was accused of supporting the military dictatorship in chile because of the relation of economists of the university of chicago to pinochet and a controversial seven day trip he took to chile during march 1975 less than two years after the coup that ended with the death of president salvador allende.
Pinochet used the military he drove tanks down the main thoroughfare and fired 24 missiles into the federal building in his coup to gain power.
Milton friedman himself coined the phrase the miracle of chile friedman s sidekick economist art laffer preened that pinochet s chile was a showcase of what supply side economics can do it certainly was. More exactly chile was a showcase of de regulation gone berserk. Friedman went to chile like he did other authoritarian countries like china and gave speeches on freedom. Most notably she links him to augusto pinochet s brutal military dictatorship in chile in the 1970s writing that friedman acted as adviser to the chilean dictator in fact friedman never.
