Chicago Boys (2015)

Directed by

Carola Fuentes

Genre

documentary film

Country

Chile

Runtime

1h 25m

Rating

7.6 of 10 from 12 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary tells the story of a group of Chilean economists who studied at the University of Chicago. They returned to Chile and became the main architects of the country's neoliberal economic policies under the Pinochet dictatorship.

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What happens

Chicago Boys is a 2015 Chilean documentary film written and directed by Carola Fuentes & Rafael Valdeavellano. The film tells the story of the Chicago Boys, a group of Chilean economists trained at the Catholic University of Chile who, after conducting graduate studies at the University of Chicago under professor Arnold Harberger, return to their country and, after Augusto Pinochet's military dictatorship (1973–1990), become the main ideologues of the neoliberal economic model in Chile. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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