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London, Penguin Books, 2008.
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| Description |
566pOrange Spine
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| Summary/Abstract |
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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| 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
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| Standard Number |
9780141024530 Pb.
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