Sergio de Castro

Sergio de Castro Spikula ( born January 25, 1930 in Santiago de Chile) is a Chilean economist. He was under the military government of Augusto Pinochet First Minister, later Minister of Finance.

At the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, he studied industrial engineering. He was one of the first three Chilean students who were sent in 1956 to the University of Chicago, studied there to economics.

He worked as a Professor and Director of the Economics Research Center at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, where he was also Dean of 1965-1968. Along with some other Chilean economists he designed in the 1970s very important memorandum El Ladrillo ( the brick ).

After the military coup, he entered on 14 September 1973 in the military government, first as an advisor to the Minister of Economy Fernando Léniz. 14 April 1975 to 27 December 1976, he was Minister of Economic Affairs. December 31, 1976 to April 22, 1982, he was Minister of Finance. Since he " neoliberal " reforms following the Chicago School performed in office, he is counted among the Chicago Boys. As finance minister, however, he brought in 1979 against the recommendations of Milton Friedman, a system of fixed exchange rates a. At this he also held yet, as an economic adviser in the deep recession in 1982 due to the sharp rise in the number of corporate bankruptcies to a depreciation of the Chilean peso crowded. De Castro responded that only the strongest and most competitive of the crisis should survive, but could with his mind no longer prevail and had to go in 1982.

After his release, he worked as a director of Banco Edwards Citi. He is currently a board member of the Centro de Estudios Públicos and Executive Board of the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.

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• Chilean
• Man
• Born in 1930
• Economist ( 20th century)
• Minister of Economic Affairs
• Pinochet dictatorship
• Member of the Mont Pelerin Society
• Minister of Finance (Chile)