The shock doctrine : the rise of disaster capitalism / Naomi Klein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Klein, Naomi, 1970- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Free enterprise.

Financial crises.

Capitalism.

Physical Description:

701 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

1st Picador ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Picador, 2008.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Introduction : Blank is beautiful: three decades of erasing and remaking the world

Part 1. Two doctor shocks: research and development : The torture lab: Ewen Cameron, the CIA and the maniacal quest to erase and remake the human mind

The other doctor shock: Milton Friedman and the search for a Laissez-Faire laboratory

Part 2. The first test: birth pangs : States of shock: the bloody birth of the counterrevolution

Cleaning the slate: terror does its work

"Entirely unrelated": how an ideology was cleansed of its crimes

Part 3. Surviving democracy: bombs made of laws : Saved by a war: Thatcherism and its useful enemies

The new doctor shock: economic warfare replaces dictatorship

Crisis works: the packaging of shock therapy

Part 4. Lost in transition: while we wept, while we trembled, while we danced : Slamming the door on history: a crisis in Poland, a massacre in China

Democracy born in chains: South Africa's constricted freedom

Bonfire of a young democracy: Russia chooses "the Pinochet option"

The capitalist id: Russia and the new era of the boor market

Let it burn: the looting of Asia and "the fall of a second Berlin wall"

Part 5. Shocking times: the rise of the disaster capitalism complex : Shock therapy in the U.S.A.: the Homeland Security bubble

A corporatist state: removing the revolving door, putting in an archway

Part 6. Iraq, full circle: overshock : Erasing Iraq: in search of a "model" for the Middle East

Ideological blowback: a very capitalist disaster

Full circle: from blank slate to scorched earth

Part 7. The movable green zone: buffer zones and blast walls

Blanking the beach: "the second tsunami"

Disaster apartheid: a world of green zones and red zones

Losing the peace incentive: Israel as warning

Conclusion: Shock wears off: the rise of people's reconstruction.

Notes:

Originally published: New York : Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt, 2007.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 591-665) and index.

ISBN:

9780312427993

0312427999

OCLC:

182737600

Publisher Number:

90103155747