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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 330.122 EAN: 9780312427993 ISBN: 0312427999 Label: Picador Manufacturer: Picador Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 720 Publication Date: June 24, 2008 Publisher: Picador Release Date: June 24, 2008 Studio: Picador Sales Rank: 190 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: In this groundbreaking alternative history of the most dominant ideology of our time, Milton Friedman's free-market economic revolution, Naomi Klein challenges the popular myth of this movement's peaceful global victory. From Chile in 1973 to Iraq today, Klein shows how Friedman and his followers have repeatedly harnessed terrible shocks and violence to implement their radical policies. As John Gray wrote in The Guardian, "There are very few books that really help us understand the present. The Shock Doctrine is one of those books." Discount Shopping Review: Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine advances a truly unnerving argument: historically, while people were reeling from natural disasters, wars and economic upheavals, savvy politicians and industry leaders nefariously implemented policies that would never have passed during less muddled times. As Klein demonstrates, this reprehensible game of bait-and-switch isn't just some relic from the bad old days. It's alive and well in contemporary society, and coming soon to a disaster area near you. "At the most chaotic juncture in Iraq'' civil war, a new law is unveiled that will allow Shell and BP to claim the country's vast oil reserves… Immediately following September 11, the Bush Administration quietly outsources the running of the 'War on Terror' to Halliburton and Blackwater… After a tsunami wipes out the coasts of Southeast Asia, the pristine beaches are auctioned off to tourist resorts… New Orleans residents, scattered from Hurricane Katrina, discover that their public housing, hospitals and schools will never be re-opened." Klein not only kicks butt, she names names, notably economist Milton Friedman and his radical Chicago School of the 1950s and 60s which she notes "produced many of the leading neo-conservative and neo-liberal thinkers whose influence is still profound in Washington today." Stand up and take a bow, Donald Rumsfeld. There's little doubt Klein's book--which arrived to enormous attention and fanfare thanks to her previous missive, the best-selling No Logo, will stir the ire of the right and corporate America. It's also true that Klein's assertions are coherent, comprehensively researched and footnoted, and she makes a very credible case. Even if the world isn't going to hell in a hand-basket just yet, it's nice to know a sharp customer like Klein is bearing witness to the backroom machinations of government and industry in times of turmoil. --Kim Hughes Average Rating:
 Rating:  - SuperbThis well-researched book is clearly written and should be read by anyone wanting to understand world politics and economics. Rating: - Food for thoughtFor the first nine chapters of the SHOCK DOCTRINE by Naomi Klein I could not put the book down until I had finished reading it word for word. Having been suitably impressed I immediately purchased three additional copies and have given them out to professional colleagues who I know enjoy reading about history and economics, especially in regards to humanitarian and development issues in third world countries, and their volatile causes/treatments. I work in a team of people providing ... Read More Rating: - The Shock Doctrine audiobookNot being an economist, I found this audiobook understandable and interesting. The author made the concepts clear, a point of view everyone should consider within the mix. Rating:  - DisappointingI listened to Naomi Klein on a podcast where she was giving a speech, as I recall, to folks gathered at the University of Chicago. Her presentation was well-organized, intriguing, and invited further exploration. So I purchased the book to explore the subject further. This is one of those situations where more argues for less -- less detail if non-economists are to follow the labyrinth of public facts and private assumptions, fewer allegations unsupported by research footnotes, and ... Read More Rating: - A MUST READ!My first copy of "THE SHOCK DOCTRINE, the rise of disaster capitalism" by Naomi Klein was a gift from a friend. After i had read 3 chapters i wanted EVERYONE to read it because it goes to the roots of the current economic meltdown. It is very well written..a 'page turner' and truly shocking about what it reveals the U.S. the IMF and the WORLD BANK have done around the world since the '70s causing immense suffering and bloodshed in forcing poor countries to have 'FREE MARKETS" ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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