The shock doctrine : rise of disaster capitalism /: rise of disaster capitalism. (2008)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Naomi Klein.
• Authors: Klein, Naomi, 1970-
• Contents: 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
• Publisher Details: London : Penguin
• Publication Date: 2008
• Extent: 1 online resource (558 pages)
• Subjects: 330.122; International Relations; Political Corruption; Free enterprise -- Moral and ethical aspects; Free enterprise; Financial crises; Capitalism -- Moral and ethical aspects; Capitalism; Disasters -- Political aspects; Disasters -- Economic aspects; Economic policy; History, Modern -- 1945-1989; History, Modern -- 1989-; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780141980867; 0141980869
• Related ISBNs: 0141024534; 9780141024530; 9780713998993; 0713998997; 9781846140280; 1846140285
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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