The Shock Doctrine : The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

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Unveiling the exploitation of crisis in capitalism.

The Shock Doctrine offers readers a critical perspective on how large corporations have used catastrophes and crises to advance their interests through privatization and exploitation. Naomi Klein's research and writing provides a gripping analysis of the political and economic forces that have driven global capitalism over the past three decades, revealing the hidden agendas behind these policies. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in understanding the often-hidden workings of power and wealth in today's world.

  • Warwick Prize for Writing (2009)
  • Canadian Booksellers Association Libris Award for Non‐Fiction Book (2008)
  • British Columbia National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction Nominee (2008)
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The Shock Doctrine : The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

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ISBN: 9780805086997
Authors: Naomi Klein
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
Date of Publication: 2007-09-18
Format: Paperback
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The bestselling author of "No Logo" exposes the rise of disaster capitalism and destroys the myth of the global " free market" In her groundbreaking reporting from Iraq, Naomi Klein exposed how the trauma of the 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 therapy, " losing their land and homes to rapid-fire corporate makeovers. 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 through sensory deprivation and electroshock-- the basis of torture techniques from Pinochet' s Chile to Guanta namo 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 disastercapitalism.
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Unveiling the exploitation of crisis in capitalism.

The Shock Doctrine offers readers a critical perspective on how large corporations have used catastrophes and crises to advance their interests through privatization and exploitation. Naomi Klein's research and writing provides a gripping analysis of the political and economic forces that have driven global capitalism over the past three decades, revealing the hidden agendas behind these policies. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in understanding the often-hidden workings of power and wealth in today's world.

  • Warwick Prize for Writing (2009)
  • Canadian Booksellers Association Libris Award for Non‐Fiction Book (2008)
  • British Columbia National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction Nominee (2008)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.