When the first group of Chileans returned home from Chicago, they were “even more Friedmanite than Friedman himself,” in the words of Mario Zañartu, an economist at Santiago’s Catholic University. f28 Many took up posts as economics professors in the Catholic University Economics Department, rapidly turning it into their own little Chicago School in the middle of Santiago—the same curriculum, the same English-language texts, the same unyielding claim to “pure” and “scientific” knowledge.
