The profound changes implemented in the Chilean school education during the 1980s can be said to represent an “economist’s utopia” by providing that the educational system should function as a market, that is, that it should be subjected solely to the rules of supply and demand and that the qua homo economicus man should move within it.
Las profundas transformaciones implementadas en la educación escolar chilena durante la década de los 80, puede decirse que representan una utopía economicista al establecer que el sistema educativo debe poder funcionar como un mercado, vale decir, sujeto a las solas reglas de oferta y demanda y en su interior moverse el hombre qua homo economicus .