Awards
- Short-listed for L.A. Times Book Prize (Current Interest) 2007
Overview
A New York Times Critics’ Pick • Named Book of the Year by: San Francisco Chronicle • Publishers Weekly • Quill & Quire • The Village Voice • The Observer • The Scotsman • Sunday Herald • Irish Examiner • Chicago Sun-Times • Sacramento News & Review • The Seattle Times A New York Times and international #1 bestseller, winner of the 2009 Warwick Prize for Writing and translated into over 30 languages. From the author of No Logo—the gripping story of how America’s “free market” polices exploited crises and shock for three decades from Pinochet’s coup in Chile in 1973 to the ""War on Terror."" 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 one the most dominant ideologies 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.
Full Product Details
Author: Naomi Klein
Publisher: Vintage Canada
Imprint: Vintage Canada
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 3.60cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.618kg
ISBN: 9780676978018
ISBN 10: 0676978010
Pages: 672
Publication Date: 29 July 2008
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
"Klein tracks the forced imposition of economic privatization, rife with multinational corporate parasites, on areas and nations weakened by war, civil strife or natural disasters….pointing an alarmed finger at a global “corporatocracy” that combines the worst features of big business and small government…. Klein’s book incorporates an amount of due diligence, logical structure and statistical evidence that others lack….[P]persuasive…Provocative…. Required reading for anyone trying to pierce the complexities of globalization."<br>—Starred Kirkus review <br>"Impassioned, hugely informative, wonderfully controversial, and scary as hell."<br>—John le Carre <br>"Naomi Klein is one of the most important new voices in American journalism today, as this book make clear.  She has turned globalism inside out, and in so doing given all of us a new way of looking at our seemingly unending disaster in Iraq,
Author Information
NAOMI KLEIN is an award-winning journalist, columnist, and author of the New York Times and international bestsellers The Shock Doctrine, No Logo, This Changes Everything, and No Is Not Enough. A Senior Correspondent for The Intercept, reporter for Rolling Stone, and contributor for both The Nation and The Guardian, Klein is the inaugural Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair in Media, Culture, and Feminist Studies at Rutgers University. She is co-founder of the climate justice organization The Leap.
