The Shock Doctrine: the Rise of Disaster Capitalism [First Picador edition.] 9780141980867, 0141980869, 9781429919487, 1429919485

The bestselling author of "No Logo" argues that by capitalizing on crises, created by nature or war, the disas

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The Shock Doctrine: the Rise of Disaster Capitalism [First Picador edition.]
9780141980867, 0141980869, 9781429919487, 1429919485

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Naomi

Table of contents :
Introduction : Blank is beautiful: three decades of erasing and remaking the world --
Part 1. Two doctor shocks: research and development : 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 --
Part 2. The first test: birth pangs : States of shock: the blood birth of the counterrevolution --
Cleaning the slate: terror does its work --
"Entirely unrelated": how an ideology was cleansed of its crimes --
Part 3. Surviving democracy: bombs made of laws : Saved by a war: Thatcherism and its useful enemies --
The new doctor shock: economic warfare replaces dictatorship --
Crisis works: the packaging of shock therapy --
Part 4. Lost in transition: while we wept, while we trembled, while we danced : 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 --
Let it burn: the looting of Asia and "the fall of a second Berlin wall" --
Part 5. Shocking times: the rise of the disaster capitalism complex : Shock therapy in the U.S.A.: the Homeland Security bubble --
A corporatist state: removing the revolving door, putting in an archway --
Part 6. Iraq, full circle: overshock : 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 --
Part 7. The movable green zone: buffer zones and blast walls --
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.

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