Full name: The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

Author: Naomi Klein Year: 2006 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Politics, Non Fiction, Economics, History Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Amazon LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780805079838 9780312427993 0805079831 0312427999

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. Similar books: No Is Not Enough by Naomi Klein Profit Over People by Noam Chomsky The Secret History of the American Empire by John Perkins The Silent Takeover by Noreena Hertz Them And Us by Will Hutton The Corporation by Joel Bakan No Logo by Naomi Klein The Establishment by Owen Jones The Accidental Superpower by Peter Zeihan Blowout by Rachel Maddow Strangers in Their Own Land by Arlie Russell Hochschild Open Veins of Latin America by Eduardo Galeano Chavs by Owen Jones Hidden Agendas by John Pilger How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney The New Road to Serfdom by Daniel Hannan The Other America by Michael Harrington The Global Minotaur by Yanis Varoufakis The Lords of Creation by Frederick Lewis Allen The Long Descent by John Michael Greer