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EDITORIAL REVIEW: **The bestselling author of *No Logo* shows how the global free market has exploited crises and shock for three decades, from Chile to Iraq** In her groundbreaking reporting over the past few years, 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 the most dominant ideology 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 argu

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Author

Naomi Klein

Publisher

Metropolitan Books; Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9780805079838

Category

history

Subjects

Economics, Fiction, Political Science

Rating

4.23 / 5 (24,715 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13