| ID | 016699 |
| Call Number | 909.825/KLE |
| Title Proper | Shock doctrine: the rise of disaster capitalism |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Klein, Naomi |
| Publication | London, Penguin Books, 2008. |
| Description | 566p Orange Spine |
| Note | The true history of the past three decades, revealing that our world is increasingly ruled by those in thrall to an ideology: an ideology that has managed to erase its own violent beginnings and has convinced us that 'free markets' and 'free people' are one and the same. |
| Note | 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 |
| Standard Number | 9780141024530 |
| Price. Qualification | £12.99(Pb) |
| Classification Number | 909.825 |
| Key Words | United States - Foreign relations ; History, Modern ; Disasters ; Capitalism ; IBDP ; TOK ; Free enterprise ; Financial crises ; Capitalism - Social aspects ; Business and Management |