THE SHOCK DOCTRINE

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by Naomi Klein (2007)

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The shock doctrine is both extremist ideology and cold-blooded strategy. A fundamentalist belief system taught to students at the Chicago School of Economics. A policy and programme of privatisation, deregulation, and wide-ranging cuts to public spending. A transformation of the national economy away from varied local manufacturing and towards single product exports. A political police force to suppress subversion and a disloyal military to orchestrate a coup d’état. Mass murder. The disappeared. Brazil 1964. Uruguay 1973. Chile 1973. Argentina 1976. Entire nations upended. Crisis after crisis. The US reconstruction business. KUBARK manual. An expansive study of modern western capitalism, its fundamentalist believers, and its victims and survivors. Non-fiction. 720 pages.

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DETAILS:

Title: The shock doctrine. The rise of disaster capitalism

Year: 2007

Author: Naomi Klein

Pages: 720

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Book review by Keith Salter