The shock doctrine : the rise of disaster capitalism / Naomi Klein.
By: Klein, Naomi.
Material type: BookPublisher: London: Allen Lane / Penguin, 2007Description: 558 p. ; 25 cm.ISBN: 9781846140280.Subject(s): Free enterprise | Financial crises | CapitalismDDC classification: 330.12/2 Online resources: Table of contents only | Contributor biographical information | Publisher descriptionItem type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Non Fiction | BardBerlinLibrary | 330.12 Kle 2007 (Browse shelf) | Available |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : blank is beautiful : three decades of erasing and remaking the world -- 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 -- States of shock : the bloody birth of the counter-revolution -- Cleaning the slate : terror does its work -- "Entirely unrelated" : how an ideology was cleansed of its crimes -- Saved by a war : Thatcherism and its useful enemies -- The new Dr. Shock : economic warfare replaces dictatorship -- Crisis works : the packaging of shock therapy -- 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 the second Berlin Wall" -- Shock therapy in the U.S.A. : the Homeland security bubble -- A corporatist state : removing the revolving door, putting in an archway -- 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 -- 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.
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