Chicago Boys and gremialistas overlapped heavily rather than being distinct factions.

Evidence

It is often said that the neoliberal economists and the gremialistas came from totally different intellectual backgrounds, the neoliberal economists being “scientific” free market apologists and the gremialistas being corporatists with Hispanic authoritarian values (see, for example, Silva 1991, 393). Distinguishing the intellectual perspectives of neoliberals and gremialistas is not easily done, however. Many of the economists who reentered the Catholic University upon their return from Chicago in fact actively participated in the gremialista movement. … Among the economists who represented the gremialistas in university bodies or participated actively in the movement were Juan Carlos Méndez, Miguel Kast, Pablo Baraona, and the MPS-members Arturo Fontaine Talavera and Cristián Larroulet. The dean of the economic faculty, Sergio de Castro, was on the list of gremialista candidates; the director of the economic faculty and later finance minister, Jorge Cauas, was also close to the movement (Lavín 1986; Fontaine 1988, 31; Huneeus 1998). — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1566

Categorization

• XREF: Complicates the common scholarly binary between ‘scientific’ market economists and corporatist-authoritarian gremialistas — a distinction the reader likely holds from earlier chapters.
• SEED: Possible article angle: how intellectual-historical categories (‘free-marketeer’ vs ‘authoritarian corporatist’) break down when traced through actual personnel networks.