Sergio de Castro Spikula (born January 25, 1930) is a

Chile Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in the western part of South America. It is the southernmost country in the world, and the closest to Antarctica, occupying a long and narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east a ...

economist An economist is a professional and practitioner in the social sciences, social science discipline of economics. The individual may also study, develop, and apply theories and concepts from economics and write about economic policy. Within this ...

who served the

military junta A military junta () is a government led by a committee of military leaders. The term ''junta'' means "meeting" or "committee" and originated in the national and local junta organized by the Spanish resistance to Napoleon's invasion of Spain in ...

headed by

Augusto Pinochet Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte (, , , ; 25 November 1915 – 10 December 2006) was a Chilean general who ruled Chile from 1973 to 1990, first as the leader of the Military Junta of Chile from 1973 to 1981, being declared President of ...

as economy and finance minister. De Castro was one of the

Chicago boys The Chicago Boys were a group of Chilean economists prominent around the 1970s and 1980s, the majority of whom were educated at the Department of Economics of the University of Chicago under Milton Friedman and Arnold Harberger, or at its affiliat ...

, trained in economics at the

University of Chicago The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, U of C, or UChi) is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois. Its main campus is located in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood. The University of Chicago is consistently ranked among the b ...

. Sergio de Castro is one of the authors of the influential text known as ''

El ladrillo ''El ladrillo'' (English: ''The Brick'') is a study considered the base of many of the economic policies followed by the military dictatorship that ruled Chile from 1973 to 1990. La transformación económica de chilena entre 1973-2003'. Memoria ...

'', writing its

prologue A prologue or prolog (from Greek πρόλογος ''prólogos'', from πρό ''pró'', "before" and λόγος ''lógos'', "word") is an opening to a story that establishes the context and gives background details, often some earlier story that ...

.
La transformación económica de chilena entre 1973-2003
'. Memoria Chilena.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Castro, Sergio de 1930 births Living people Ministers of the military dictatorship of Chile (1973–1990) 20th-century Chilean economists Chilean anti-communists Chilean Ministers of Finance Chilean Ministers of Economy People from Santiago University of Chicago alumni Pontifical Catholic University of Chile alumni Member of the Mont Pelerin Society

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