The shock doctrine : the rise of disaster capitalism

Klein, Naomi Ph. D (Author).

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ISBN: 9780676978001 (hc) :
Physical Description: print
661 p. ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Toronto : A.A. Knopf Canada, c2007.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Introduction : blank is beautiful : three decades of erasing and remaking the world -- Pt. 1. Two Doctor Shocks : research and development -- 1. The torture lab : Ewen Cameron, the CIA and the maniacal quest to erase and remake the human mind -- 2. The other Doctor Shock : Milton Friedman and the search for a laissez-faire laboratory -- Pt. 2. The first test : birth pangs -- 3. States of shock : the bloody birth of the counterrevolution -- 4. Cleaning the slate : terror does its work -- 5. "Entirely unrelated" : how an ideology was cleansed of its crimes -- Pt. 3. Surviving democracy : bombs made of laws -- 6. Saved by a war : Thatcherism and its useful enemies -- 7. The new Doctor Shock : economic warfare replaces dictatorship -- 8. Crisis works : the packaging of shock therapy -- Pt. 4. Lost in transition : while we wept, while we trembled, while we danced -- 9. Slamming the door on history : a crisis in Poland, a massacre in China -- 10. Democracy born in chains : South Africa αs constricted freedom -- 11. Bonfire of a young democracy : Russia chooses "the Pinochet option" -- 12. The capitalist Id : Russia and the new era of the boor market -- 13. Let it burn : the looting of Asia and "the fall of a second Berlin Wall" --