Chile’s Chicago Boys network predated Pinochet grounded in pre-coup institutions.

Evidence

Conversations with the Chilean senator and university professor Pedro Ibañez Ojeda about the threat of the Alliance for Pro­gress strengthened Hunold’s resolve to start the new organ­ization. Ibañez was the head of the Inter-­American Committee on Trade and Protection, which provided the “infrastructure and network of connections” for Chicago-­trained economists in Chile in the 1960s ahead of their breakthrough ­after Pinochet’s coup. — Quinn Slobodian, Globalists, 544

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the wider historiography of the Chicago Boys and Chile’s 1973 coup as a defining case of neoliberal policy rollout. — connects to: Chicago economists trained under a US aid program shaped Pinochet’s reforms — Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion: Reinventing Free…, 516; The CIA-backed coup installed Chicago-school austerity economists in Chile — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 356; Chicago-trained economists filled key Chilean ministries under Pinochet — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 1624 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Chicago-trained economists filled key Chilean ministries under Pinochet #expands (0.95) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1624
• Chicago-school economists delivered a shock-treatment blueprint to Pinochet’s coup regime within days #expands (0.95) — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 322
• A Frei-era planning agency seeded Pinochet’s economic reform team #corroborates (0.95) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1627