The shock doctrine : the rise of disaster capitalism / Naomi Klein.
| Author/creator | Klein, Naomi, 1970- |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | 1st ed. |
| Publication Info | New York : Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt, 2007. |
| Description | 558 pages ; 25 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Table of contents only |
| Supplemental Content | Contributor biographical information |
| Supplemental Content | Publisher description |
| Subjects |
| 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2007018652 |
| ISBN | 9780805079838 |
| ISBN | 0805079831 |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | HB 95 .K54 2007 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |