Word: miltonic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Milton Friedman flew to Chile to lobby for their panaceas. On his own steam, unpaid by the Chilean government, Harberger gave speeches and interviews in Chile to publicize his views. He has more than a little of the crusader...
...million, using grants from the U.S. Office of Education and National Science Foundation, as well as the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the United Technologies Corp. The sponsors hope that the show can help close a gap in science education in the early grades. Says CTW Research Director Milton Chen: "In surveys of science achievement, you see a pattern of declining interest in science around junior high. We're trying to intervene earlier to try to encourage kids to stay tuned in to science." Another goal: stimulating interest in scientific careers among minorities, who now make up only...
...whom Chileans call the "Chicago Boys," a handful of officials and academics led by Planning Minister Miguel Kast, 30, Finance Minister Sergio de Castro, 49, and Central Bank President Alvaro Bardon, 39. All have graduate degrees in economics from the University of Chicago, the spiritual home of Free Marketeer Milton Friedman. Like most Chilean economists, the Boys were fervent opponents of Allende, and the military junta picked many of them for top jobs. They were given broad authority to cope with emergency in 1975, when the country lay in ruins, hammered by three blows in succession. First there...