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.

And yet, in both life and death, Pinochet and Friedman have been assumed by many to be two sides of some evil right-wing coin in which torture, despotism, and unrestricted free markets are all ...

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 ...

Friedman gave a series of lectures and met with Pinochet for 45 minutes, where the general “indicated very little indeed about his own or the government’s feeling.” Although he noted that ...

Back in 2006, Brian Doherty described the nature and the extent of Milton Friedman’s role in Pinochet-era Chile. If Doherty is right, the facts don’t align very well with the folk narrative ...

In 1975, following the overthrow of the elected Allende government in a military coup on September 11, 1973, the head of the junta, Augusto Pinochet, called on Friedman and his “Chicago boys ...

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 ...

Oh, Lordy, the nuts with a shaky knowledge of history, but the talismanic word "Pinochet" have crawled out of the woodwork to assert that Milton Friedman did, too, cause a dictatorship!

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 ...

That year is enormously significant because it was one year before Pinochet seized power in a bloody US-backed coup. That means that if one person deserves credit for the law, it is not Friedman ...

At the same time, Friedman was also facing some of the sharpest criticism of his career. His trip to Augusto Pinochet’s Chile in 1975 was brief, lasting only six days. But it was seen as a ...