The bestselling author of No Logo 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 50 years.
The Shock Doctrine is one of those books..
As John Gray wrote in The Guardian, There are very few books that really help us understand the present.
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.
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.
The bestselling author of No Logo 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 50 years
