The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

Klein, Naomi

ISBN 10: 0312427999 / ISBN 13: 9780312427993

Published by Holt Paperbacks (edition First Edition), 2008

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
• Publisher: Holt Paperbacks (edition First Edition)
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0312427999
• ISBN 13: 9780312427993
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Fair

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Synopsis

International Bestseller
Winner of the Warwick Prize for Writing
18th in The Guardian's top 100 Greatest Books since 2000

"Impassioned, hugely informative, wonderfully controversial, and scary as hell.” ―John le Carré

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, 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. Klein argues that by capitalizing on crises, created by nature or war, 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.

About the Author

Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist and documentary filmmaker, and the bestselling author of Doppelganger, No Logo, The Shock Doctrine, and other classic books, which have been translated into thirty-five languages. She is an associate professor of geography and codirector of the Centre for Climate Justice at the University of British Columbia, and she writes a regular column for The Guardian. Doppelganger was the winner of the Women’s Prize for Nonfiction and was named one of the ten best books of the year by New York magazine, Slate, and Time.