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The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
The Shock Doctrine The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
Author: Naomi Klein
In Blank Is Beautiful, Klein explores the deeply rooted impulse to erase what is inconvenient and start over from scratch. This journey takes her back to two formative experiments in the 1950s, both funded by the U.S. government. One was a covert university research project in Montreal that blanked the minds of psychiatric patients thro...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780805079838
ISBN-10: 0805079831
Publication Date: 2007
Pages: 408
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Publisher: Metropolitan Books
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
Members Wishing: 1
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This is an extremely timely book regarding much of our current economic crisis. Does a great job of filling in some of the pieces and giving a coherent business as usual picture.
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Everyone should read this book to understand what's gone on behind all the tumultuous events in the world during the past half-century.....as well as what's happening in the USA today. Klein's writing is well documented and thorough. She's brilliant.


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