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| The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism | 
 enlarge | Author: Naomi Klein
Publisher: Picador
Category: Book
List Price: $16.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  340 reviews
Sales Rank: 212
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 720
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 5.5 x 1.4
ISBN: 0312427999
Dewey Decimal Number: 330.122
EAN: 9780312427993
ASIN: 0312427999
Publication Date: June 24, 2008
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| Customer Reviews:
 Awesome Read December 9, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Great Book. I loved it. Best thing I've read in a long time. A bit slow in the middle, but what a story!
If you've ever thought Republican economic theory was crazy evil wrong-headed nonsense here's 30 years worth of nefarious history to refute any right wing nutters you may be forced to deal with. Klein's book is a blistering refutation and indictment of right-wing neo-liberal economic theory.
Incredibly salient book in our current economically trying times. Klein's book provides history, context, an idealogical underpinning, and points the way to the culprits of our current mess. Let's keep our fingers crossed and pray all that despite some discouraging cabinet picks, Obama can finally bury the Friedmanite policies of the past 30 years which reached its most absurd and pure expression in this country during the Bush nightmare, and restore Keynesian economic polices and fiscal sanity to our poor long suffering country.
shocking December 17, 2008
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
I couldn't put this book down--I was both horrified and enthralled by the author's views on the connection between torture and the spread of unrestrained capitalism. She builds her case with facts and presents a damning picture of the people that we thought we could trust to manage our society. I was especially intrigued by the clear connection between natural or man-made diasters and the loss of freedoms that we take for granted.
Good if you can take it December 18, 2008
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
Well written and very informative, but can be quite depressing when you learn what the wealthy do to stay wealthy and why the world is losing its middle class. I had to take a break half way through the book because I was just too annoyed at corporate American, politicians and economists.
See what CIA has done in the name of America November 10, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is highly recommended to read about the damage caused by the "Chicago School" of economics. Theories pushed by Milton Friedman and his school were used by the CIA as justification for overthrowing democratically elected governments in favor of right wing dictatorships in several Latin American countries. There was blood on the hands of Nobel Prize winner Friedman but he managed to disassociate himself from the violence through a strange process of ratiocination. A valuable book that everyone should read.
Did anyone mention Naomi Klein is cute? November 10, 2008
1 out of 10 found this review helpful
I know, I know, this shock doctrine stuff is serious, and harms many people, and so forth.
But Naomi Klein is cute.
Ah, I've known so many women like her from years gone by.
Such a nice girl. And smart, too!
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