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The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism |
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 argues that by capitalizing on crises, created by nature or war, the disaster capitalism complex now exists as a booming new economy, and is the violent culmination of a radical economic project that has been incubating for fifty years.
| Indice e argomenti trattati |
| INTRODUCTION Blank Is Beautiful: Three Decades of Erasing and Remaking the World | | 3 | | | PART 1 Two Doctor Shocks: Research and Development | | | 1. The Torture Lab: Ewen Cameron, the CIA and the Maniacal Quest to Erase and Remake the Human Mind |
| | 25 | | | 2. The Other Doctor Shock: Milton Friedman and the Search for a Laissez-Faire Laboratory |
| | 49 | | | PART 2 The First Test: Birth Pangs | | | 3. States of Shock: The Bloody Birth of the Counterrevolution |
| | 75 | | | 4. Cleaning the Slate: Terror Does Its Work |
| | 98 | | | 5. "Entirely Unrelated": How an Ideology Was Cleansed of Its Crimes |
| | 116 | | | PART 3 Surviving Democracy: Bombs Made of Laws | | | 6. Saved by a War: Thatcherism and Its Useful Enemies |
| | 131 | | | 7. The New Doctor Shock: Economic Warfare Replaces Dictatorship |
| | 142 | | | 8. Crisis Works: The Packaging of Shock Therapy |
| | 155 | | | PART 4 Lost in Transition: While We Wept, While We Trembled, While We Danced | | | 9. Slamming the Door on History: A Crisis in Poland, a Massacre in China |
| | 171 | | | 10. Democracy Born in Chains: South Africa's Constricted Freedom |
| | 194 | | | 11. Bonfire of a Young Democracy: Russia Chooses "The Pinochet Option" |
| | 218 | | | 12. The Capitalist Id: Russia and the New Era of the Boor Market |
| | 246 | | | 13. Let It Burn: The Looting of Asia and "The Fall of a Second Berlin Wall" |
| | 263 | | | PART 5 Shocking Times: The Rise of the Disaster Capitalism Complex | | | 14. Shock Therapy in the U.S.A.: The Homeland Security Bubble |
| | 283 | | | 15. A Corporatist State: Removing the Revolving Door, Putting in an Archway |
| | 308 | | | PART 6 Iraq, Full Circle: Overshock | | | 16. Erasing Iraq: In Search of a "Model" for the Middle East |
| | 325 | | | 17. Ideological Blowback: A Very Capitalist Disaster |
| | 341 | | | 18. Full Circle: From Blank Slate to Scorched Earth |
| | 360 | | | PART 7 The Movable Green Zone: Buffer Zones and Blast Walls | | | 19. Blanking the Beach: "The Second Tsunami" |
| | 385 | | | 20. Disaster Apartheid: A World of Green Zones and Red Zones |
| | 406 | | | 21. Losing the Peace Incentive: Israel as Warning |
| | 423 | | | CONCLUSION Shock Wears Off: The Rise of People's Reconstruction | | | Notes | | 467 | | | Acknowledgments | | 527 | | | Index | | 535 | |
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