| Summary: | This thesis deal with two fundamentals questions regarding Chile’s recent past. The first one is the profound economical and social transformation lived between 1973 and 2003, that is to say the period that includes the military regime and the first three governments of the democratic transition. The second ones refers to the evolution of the liberal economical thought in Chile, and the rising of a new entrepreneurial elite formed as the image of the neoclassical economists discourse. To situate the deepness of the changes that occurred in the country since 1973, the research goes back to the beginnings of the XIXth century when arrive to Chile the first ideas on economical liberalism, as well as the 1930 decade when the model of the “State of Conpromise" is sealed. However, the analysis is centered on the origins and development of the “Chicago Boys” as managers of Chile’s economical transformation undestood as a different type of violence and the important changes produced inside the leading elite of the country (1973-2003). Finally, the thesis examines the uses of the recent past in the strategies of power and the representations of the new elite concerning the imaginaries of a society articulated around a free market model.
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