Resumen

GOULARTI FILHO, Alcides. Merchant Marine Chilean 1973-1985: The Dispute between Liberal Economists and Nationalist Military. Am. Lat. Hist. Econ [online]. 2021, vol.28, n.3, e1240.  Epub 04-Oct-2021. ISSN 2007-3496.  https://doi.org/10.18232/alhe.1240.

The purpose of this text is to discuss the debate that took place in Chile in 1973 about the direction of the merchant navy: to keep them state-owned or to privatize them. This debate took place between a wing of the Chilean military who still defended economic nationalism and the liberal economists (known as the Chicago Boys) who took charge of economic reforms. The position of this nationalist wing can be followed in some articles published in the magazines Memorial del Ejército de Chile and Revista de Marina, and the ideological bases of liberal reforms are expressed in the document El ladrillo, or Programa de Desarrollo Económico, of 1973. In addition to this debate, the text also provides a brief introduction to economic nationalism and contextualizes the trajectory of Chilean industrialization and the performance of the naval sector until 1973.

Palabras llave : naval; nationalism; neoliberalism; Chile.