On a short visit in 1975, Friedman had an audience with Pinochet, and advised him to follow the “Chicago” advice, applying a quick liberalization to which the economy would have to adjust.

Augusto Pinochet’s government in Chile, as well as a detailed explanation of Friedman’s visit there in 1975. He advised the Chilean dictator that the country’s economic crisis—marked by ...

Prices were, as Burns notes, “rising more than 300 percent a year” when a Santiago university called in Friedman and his colleagues. Pinochet’s regime was also, as Burns doesn’t mention ...

Her chapter on Friedman’s relationship with the regime of the Chilean dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet is similarly awkward. Friedman tried to deny there was much of a relationship: He simply ...

The Chicago Boys and the tragedy of the Chilean coup. A new book examines how a group of University of Chicago–trained economists sought to remake the Chilean economy in the aftermath of 1973.

Augusto Pinochet replaced Chile’s constitution with a new charter employing the principles of famed American free-market economist Milton Friedman. Forty years later the dictatorship is gone ...

Pinochet hired the "Chicago Boys", a group of young Chilean economists who'd trained in the US under the free market champion Milton Friedman. They slashed public spending, and opened up Chile's ...

Friedman is a special bugbear of President ... He became a bogeyman of the left for a six-day trip to Chile to advise Augusto Pinochet, its dictator, though Ms Burns argues that while he ...

“Literal-minded to a fault, Friedman failed to appreciate the optics of meeting with Pinochet, who was widely viewed as a U.S. stooge,” she writes. “To Chilean exiles in particular, it ...

Friedman has become widely known in America, but remains controversial. He was heavily criticized by liberals for his willingness to advise right-wing Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet after ...