Actually, thanks to the late Milton Friedman and the Chicago Boys are in order!
Correct. But General Pinochet deserves thanks, too. He saved his country from communism - a really virulent, merciless, brutal strain of it, even viler than Hugo Chavez’s. He also made free markets possible. Thanks to General Pinochet are in order.
As Lady Thatcher and the great Ronald Reagan understood perfectly well!
Without Pinochet, any policy views of the Chicago School would have been a dead letter. Good ideas have always been around, but there is almost no one with the understanding, courage, and power to implement them.