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 ...

And indeed, the free-market reforms Pinochet and his American-trained economic advisors (some of them taught by Friedman) had initiated helped create the foundations of an America-style consumer ...

The phrase Chicago boys refers to a team of neoliberal economists at the University of Chicago who in the wake of Milton Friedman (who died in 2007) had a deep influence on the economic policy of the ...