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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 »ugh sensory deprivation and electroshock--the basis of torture techniques from Pinoche's Chile to Guantánamo Bay. The other was a program that turned the University of Chicago's economics department into a factory for developing world politicians. Guided by Milton Friedman, students learned to remake their countries as laissez-faire utopias-but only after what was there had been wiped away.
Tracing the imposition of these ideas in the decades since, Klein explodes the myth that the global 'free market' triumphed peacefully and democratically. Instead, she argues, it has consistently relied on violence and shock, resulting in the rise of disaster capitalism.« less
Rodney L. (docrod) reviewed The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism on
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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.
Corliss J. reviewed The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism on
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.