This book tells the extraordinary story of the Pinochet regime\'s economists, known as the \"Chicago Boys.\" It explores the roots of their ideas and their sense of mission, following their training as economists at the Department of Economics at the University of Chicago....

Darkly comic and highly entertaining, Javier Valdes\'s stories insinuate themselves in the unsuspecting reader like a heady brew with a strange kick....

This book tells the extraordinary story of the Pinochet regime\'s economists, known as the Chicago Boys. Following their training as economists at the University of Chicago, they took advantage of the opportunity afforded them by the 1973 military coup to launch the first radical free market strategy impl emented in a developing country....

The study includes an analysis of the internal, as well as the external, structural constraints on the Cuban economy in the 1990s, a detailed analysis of the options for monetary and fiscal reform and proposals for the development of what might be termeda mixed economy, organized according to socialist principles....