num_pages: 576
description: In this groundbreaking book, the bestselling author of No Logo exposes the gripping story of how America’s ‘free market’ policies have come to dominate the world – through the exploitation of disaster-shocked people and countries. At the most chaotic juncture in Iraq’s civil war, a new law is unveiled that would allow Shell and BP to claim the country’s vast oil reserves Immediately following September 11, the4 Bush Administration quietly out-sources the running of the ‘War on Terror’ to Halliburton and Blackwater. After a powerful tsunami devastates the coasts of Southeast Asia, the pristine beaches are auctioned off to tourist resorts. New Orleans’s residents, still scattered from Hurricane Katrina, discover that their public housing, hospitals and schools will never be reopened. These events are examples of what Naomi Klein calls ‘the shock doctrine’: the use of public disorientation following massive collective shocks – wars, terrorist attacks, natural disasters – to push through unpopular economic measures often call ‘shock therapy’.
language: English
title: The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
titlecomplete: The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
characters: Milton Friedman, Hajji Suharto, Thabo Mbeki, Jeffrey Sachs, Ewen Cameron, Mikhail Gorbachev, Margaret Thatcher, Lech Wałęsa, Boris Yeltsin, Vladimir Lenin, Nelson Mandela, Augusto Pinochet
genres: Business, Politics, Political Science, Philosophy, Social Justice, Nonfiction, Economics, Sociology, History, Society
ratings_count: 46381
places: Iraq, Brazil, New Orleans, Louisiana, Sri Lanka, Bolivia, South Africa, Chile, Indonesia, United Kingdom, Russia, Uruguay, Argentina
awards: awardedAt: 1230796800000
name: Warwick Prize for Writing, awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Canadian Booksellers Association Libris Award
category: Non‐Fiction Book, awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: British Columbia National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction
publisher: Penguin / Allen Lane