The Shock Doctrine

The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

Hardcover, 576 pages

English language

Published Sept. 18, 2007 by Metropolitan Books.

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978-0-8050-7983-8
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The bestselling author of No Logo shows how the global "free market" has exploited crises and shock for three decades, from Chile to Iraq

In her groundbreaking reporting, Naomi Klein introduced the term "disaster capitalism." Whether covering Baghdad after the U.S. occupation, Sri Lanka in the wake of the tsunami, or 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, …

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Subjects

  • Political Science
  • Politics / Current Events
  • Politics/International Relations
  • Economic Conditions
  • Government & Business
  • Middle East - General
  • Modern - 21st Century
  • Nonfiction
  • Political Science / Globalization
  • Globalization
  • Capitalism
  • Financial crises
  • Free Enterprise