Chicago Boys

A form of Chicago Boy — Any of a group of Chilean economists prominent around the 1970s and 1980s, the majority of whom trained at the Department of Economics of the University of Chicago under Milton Friedman and Arnold Harberger, or at its affiliate in the economics department at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile.

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Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of Chicago Boy
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