Over 150 Chilean economists were trained in Chicago across three decades.

Evidence

After the official end of Project Chile in 1964, the recruitment and training of students continued with funds from the Economics Department of the University of Chicago, AID, the Ford and Rockefeller Foundations, the Organization of American States, the Chilean Central Bank, and Chile’s planning office, ODEPLAN (Oficina de Planificación Nacional). In addition, the Ford Foundation donated $750,000 for a ten-year period to the Center for Latin American Economic Research at the University of Chicago. In the course of three decades, more than 150 Chilean students received their training in Chicago (Biglaiser 2002, 275f.). During the 1960s, Latin American graduate students made up one-third of the total stock of students in Chicago’s Economics Department (Harberger 1999). — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1551

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Project Chile coverage and the network-of-neoliberals framing found throughout this book’s early chapters. — connects to: Chicago’s 1956 Chile program trained thirty economists and reshaped nationwide economics teaching — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 1550; Chicago-trained economists filled key Chilean ministries under Pinochet — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 1624; 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 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Chicago-trained economists filled key Chilean ministries under Pinochet #expands (0.92) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1624
• Chicago-trained economists spread neoliberal ideas among Chilean capitalists through business associations #expands (0.88) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1557
• Chicago-school doctrine directly guided Chilean deregulation while reinforcing rather than weakening authoritarian rule. #expands (0.86) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1588
• Chicago-trained economists were placed throughout the Chilean state before the 1973 coup. #qualifies (0.80) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1552