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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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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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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)

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This was a very illuminating work about how chaotic situations are used, and sometimes created, as cover for the imposition of drastic economic and political reorganization in vulnerable economies. The end product of these actions is a so-called free market model as advocated by the Chicago School of Milton Friedman and his acolytes. Examples used include Chile, China, Argentina, Bolivia, South Africa, Russia, among others. The technique is for western financial powers to swoop in during a time

It's 2007 and Naomi Klein builds a rather convincing argument about modern governmental/corporational trends.I've personally never seen it laid out so baldly, but after having read several dozen of political books, perhaps an equivalent number of documentaries, and a lot of otherwise independent research into the topics herein, I'm willing to concede that she has a very valid point.What is the point?Modern economics theories are used to lay out a rather obvious plan of mass looting. They're

This is an ambitious book. It tries to tie the economic politics of Chile, Argentina, Bolivia (in the 1970s), Russia, Poland, China, South Africa (in the 1980s and early nineties), the war in Iraq, the tsunami, and hurricane Katrina into a unified theory. Obviously, certain investigative and interpretive biases are required to make this work. Third world nationalism and developmentalism, in general, get off pretty easy in Klein's analysis. As a specialist in Indonesia, I found her portrayal of

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



Three recent articles in The Guardian are particularly interesting in the light of Naomi Kleins conclusions in this book. On the one hand, "'Day of Wrath' brings Russians on to the streets against Vladimir Putin" bears out her thesis of citizen blowback against unrestrained capitalism. So apparently does "How China's internet generation broke the silence". That article, however, goes on to note: Many in the west see it as self-evident that an increased flow of information will make officials

There is a part of me that would like to make this review a bit funny. This is a deeply disturbing book. Ive a preference for humour as a means of confronting the deeply disturbing. But I cant bring myself to say anything remotely funny about this book.Klein compares some psychological experiments (torture by any reasonable definition of the word) carried out in the 1950s in Canada (funded by the CIA off US soil so they could plausibly deny they were researching torture) in which patients were