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Original Title:	The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
ISBN:	0805079831 (ISBN13: 9780805079838)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Augusto Pinochet, Milton Friedman, Ewen Cameron, Margaret Thatcher, Lech Wałęsa, Boris Yeltsin, Vladimir Lenin, Mikhail Gorbachev, Hajji Suharto, Nelson Mandela, Thabo Mbeki, Jeffrey Sachs
Setting:	New Orleans, Louisiana(United States) Chile Argentina …more Uruguay Bolivia Brazil United Kingdom Indonesia Russia South Africa Iraq Sri Lanka …less
Literary Awards:	Warwick Prize for Writing (2009), Canadian Booksellers Association Libris Award for Non‐Fiction Book (2008), British Columbia National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction Nominee (2008)

The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism Hardcover | Pages: 558 pages

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In her ground-breaking reporting from Iraq, Naomi Klein exposed how the trauma of invasion was being exploited to remake the country in the interest of foreign corporations. She called it "disaster capitalism." Covering Sri Lanka in the wake of the tsunami, and New Orleans post-Katrina, she witnessed something remarkably similar. People still reeling from catastrophe were being hit again, this time with economic "shock treatment" losing their land and homes to rapid-fire corporate makeovers. The Shock Doctrine retells the story of the most dominant ideology of our time, Milton Friedman's free market economic revolution. In contrast to the popular myth of this movement's peaceful global victory, Klein shows how it has exploited moments of shock and extreme violence in order to implement its economic policies in so many parts of the world from Latin America and Eastern Europe to South Africa, Russia, and Iraq. At the core of disaster capitalism is the use of cataclysmic events to advance radical privatization combined with the privatization of the disaster response itself. By capitalizing on crises, created by nature or war, Klein argues that the disaster capitalism complex now exists as a booming new economy, and is the violent culmination of a radical economic project that has been incubating for fifty years.

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Title	:	The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
Author	:	Naomi Klein
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 558 pages
Published	:	September 18th 2007 by Metropolitan Books (first published September 18th 2006)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Politics. Economics. History. Sociology

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A very disturbing book indeed. I can't decide whether I feel that her paranoia got out of control, or whether it is indeed a fair representation of US foreign policy over the last 30-40 years. A lot of it rings true. Though I hope that the links between torture and economic theory are not as clear as she paints them... that was the part I had the hardest time swallowing. Maybe we will learn more now that the Neo-Cons are going to lose control of the US.___________________________________I can't

Not sure how much more piercing looks I can take into America's rotten, blackened core, but that is due more to fatigue than to any criticism I had of this book. Klein presents to us a world that is so paralyzed and bamboozled by entropy and bureaucracy that the only way to catalyze meaningful change is to either take advantage of or foment massive disasters--whether in terms of disaster response, warfare, or regime change. She starts with Allende's Chile, as all books of this ilk do, and moves

(spoilers ahead, but it's not fiction so don't worry about it)Where do I begin? This is a failed Noam Chomsky book.Firstly, Klein is working with a strange definition of capitalism. When the free market economists who Klein refers to (like Friedman and Hayek) talk about capitalism they are referring to an economic system free of government intervention. Klein however uses the word capitalist to refer to the current economic model one in which governments and corporations work in tandem to

The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism was a riveting look at the policies advocated by economist Milton Friedman and his many followers at The Chicago School of Economics. Basically, it is a deliberate and strategic use of shock therapy to implement unpopular policies, utilizing the exploitation of national crises. The thinking is that the population would be so traumatized by the crises at hand, that they would pay little attention to what was happening, nor would they have the

Because I'm about 3 pages away from returning it to the library, I've all but stopped reading this (and a buddy has told me that there are only specific passages that are worth reading, so I'll go find them, instead). It is so full of ad hominem, straw man, "just-because-it-was-done-by-the-GOP,-free-marketists,-or-people-who-liked-Milton-Friedman,-so-it-MUST-be-bad" arguments that I am wondering what it I am supposed to get out of what feels a lot like a left-wing rant? Klien hasn't actually

Not sure how much more piercing looks I can take into America's rotten, blackened core, but that is due more to fatigue than to any criticism I had of this book. Klein presents to us a world that is so paralyzed and bamboozled by entropy and bureaucracy that the only way to catalyze meaningful change is to either take advantage of or foment massive disasters--whether in terms of disaster response, warfare, or regime change. She starts with Allende's Chile, as all books of this ilk do, and moves

One of the problems with Klein's bestselling jeremiad against the progressive global implementation of so-called free market policies over the past four decades is her attempts to link them, as a calculated stratagem, to the unsavory experimentation conducted in the fifties and sixties, by the CIA and their associated medical personnel, with personality modification and torture techniques designed to harvest information from subjects after rendering them vulnerable through administering