Shock and disaster

I finally acquired a copy of the book.
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It is a truly "groundbreaking" work. Naomi Klein's story of how free market policies have come to dominate the world through the exploitation of disaster-shocked peoples and countries.
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The shock doctrine is "the use of public disorientation following massive collective shocks - wars, terrorist attacks, natural disasters - to push through unpopular economic measures" leading to the chaotic free market situations known around the world.
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Klein has a reputation - given to her by well thinking economists, politicians and other birds of the same feather - for being a pamphlet writer, blind for each and every point which does not suit her theory. So what ? That's exactly what the well-thinking "intellectuals" do too.
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Klein most certainly does not hold the whole truth, but - in my view - she dug out a good part of it. In the coming weeks, as I advance through this book, I may put some quotations on my blog. So, you will know where they come from.

See : http://www.naomiklein.org/main.