Chicago-trained economists and gremialistas joined forces in university politics before the coup

Evidence

The battleground at the university brought together the returning Chicago economists, who began to occupy leading positions in student and university bodies at CU, and the gremialistas. Many of the economists who designed the socioeconomic reforms of the post-coup period actively participated in the gremialista movement—the only radical political entity in the fight against what was perceived as a Chilean “road to socialism” inside and outside the campus (Lavín 1986; Huneeus 1998). — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1556

Categorization

• XREF: This is the germ of the later Chicago Boys / Pinochet economic program — the intellectual fusion that made monetarist shock doctrine possible. — connects to: Chicago-trained economists were placed throughout the Chilean state before the 1973 coup. — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 1552; A coup enabled economists to capture a whole state’s economic machinery — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 1576; Corporatist gremialismo served as the intellectual-recruitment base for Chile’s coup — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 1555
• QUESTION: How exactly did the Chicago Boys’ technocratic monetarism mesh with gremialistas’ Catholic corporatism? Are these two distinct lineages that merely coexisted or a real synthesis?

Broader Connections

• Corporatist gremialismo served as the intellectual-recruitment base for Chile’s coup #corroborates (0.90) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1555
• A coup enabled economists to capture a whole state’s economic machinery #expands (0.85) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1576