Sergio de Castro Spikula (25 January 1930 – 26 April 2024) was a Chilean economist who served the

military junta A military junta () is a system of government led by a committee of military leaders. The term ''Junta (governing body), junta'' means "meeting" or "committee" and originated in the Junta (Peninsular War), national and local junta organized by t ...

headed by

Augusto Pinochet Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte (25 November 1915 – 10 December 2006) was a Chilean military officer and politician who was the dictator of Military dictatorship of Chile, Chile from 1973 to 1990. From 1973 to 1981, he was the leader ...

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 Larry Sjaastad, Milton Friedman, and Arnold Harberger, ...

, trained in economics at the

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. Sergio de Castro is one of the authors of the influential text known as '' El ladrillo'', writing its

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

.
La transformación económica de chilena entre 1973-2003
'. Memoria Chilena. De Castro died on 26 April 2024, at the age of 94.A los 94 años fallece el exministro de Hacienda Sergio de Castro

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{{DEFAULTSORT:de Castro, Sergio 1930 births 2024 deaths People educated at The Grange School, Santiago Pontifical Catholic University of Chile alumni University of Chicago alumni Ministers of the military dictatorship of Chile (1973–1990) 20th-century Chilean economists Chilean anti-communists Ministers of finance of Chile Ministers of economy of Chile People from Santiago, Chile Member of the Mont Pelerin Society

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