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015258
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Kent, Ticktock Media Ltd., 2005.
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48pGrey Spine
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Lost Words
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This narrative is coupled with gripping personal accounts that further define the times, bring personal events to life, and provide a glimpse into both the historical and personal aftermath. Archival photos and reproductions of original documents further capture the essence of these often disturbing events. As we move ahead into the twenty-first century, we must learn all we can from the voices of the past who share their stories in their own words.
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Early history: From boom to bust
Build up: The depression bites
The crisis deepens: Action is taken
Climax and aftermath: A wartime economy
Popular culture: The depression in the media
Looking back: The depression in context
Major figures: People of the depression
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9781860078323 Pb.
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020376
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Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2010.
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xvi, 150pBrown spine
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In its heyday in the late 1990s, neoliberalism emerged as the world's dominant economic paradigm. But the global financial crisis of 2008-2009 fundamentally shocked a globalized economy built on neoliberal assumptions. This introduction examines the origins, core claims, & considerable variations of neoliberalism.
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9780199560516 Pb.
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| I01808 | 320.513/STE | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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016699
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London, Penguin Books, 2008.
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566pOrange Spine
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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.
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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
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9780141024530 Pb.
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| I00858 | 909.825/KLE | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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