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Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine advances a truly unnerving argument: historically, while people were reeling from natural disasters, wars and economic upheavals, savvy politicians and industry leaders nefariously implemented policies that would never have passed during less muddled times. As Klein demonstrates, this reprehensible game of bait-and-switch isn't just some relic from the bad old days. It's alive and well in contemporary society, and coming soon to a disaster area near you.
"At the most chaotic juncture in Iraq'' civil war, a new law is unveiled that will allow Shell and BP to claim the country's vast oil reserves… Immediately following September 11, the Bush Administration quietly outsources the running of the 'War on Terror' to Halliburton and Blackwater… After a tsunami wipes out the coasts of Southeast Asia, the pristine beaches are auctioned off to tourist resorts… New Orleans residents, scattered from Hurricane Katrina, discover that their public housing, hospitals and schools will never be re-opened." Klein not only kicks butt, she names names, notably economist Milton Friedman and his radical Chicago School of the 1950s and 60s which she notes "produced many of the leading neo-conservative and neo-liberal thinkers whose influence is still profound in Washington today." Stand up and take a bow, Donald Rumsfeld.
There's little doubt Klein's book--which arrived to enormous attention and fanfare thanks to her previous missive, the best-selling No Logo, will stir the ire of the right and corporate America. It's also true that Klein's assertions are coherent, comprehensively researched and footnoted, and she makes a very credible case. Even if the world isn't going to hell in a hand-basket just yet, it's nice to know a sharp customer like Klein is bearing witness to the backroom machinations of government and industry in times of turmoil. --Kim Hughes -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine andere Ausgabe: Gebundene Ausgabe .
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Both admirers and detractors agree that the late Nobel Prize laureate Milton Friedman was an extraordinarily influential economist. Canadian Klein assails Friedman's free-market precepts as their exponents have applied them to a series of formerly state-dominated economies since 1975, when Friedman persuaded Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet to adopt his program. Klein's entirely negative interpretation of the results of "shock therapy" only lays the foundation for her book's thesis: that Friedman's prescriptions require a crisis and are ineluctably bound with the application of violence. This perspective informs her criticism––condemnation, in fact––of reform programs in the last three decades that have aimed to separate the state from the economy in Bolivia, Poland, Russia, China, the UK, and elsewhere. The process of market liberalization, Klein maintains, has created a "disaster capitalism complex," consisting of corporations that thrive on catastrophe; the author particularly arraigns security and logistics firms in the U.S. and Israel. Assiduously researched, energetically expressed, Klein's report bears an ideological perspective that won't leave readers neutral about her economic interpretations. Taylor, Gilbert
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Naomi Klein demonstrates that in totally unconstrained capitalism, the richest and least scrupulous do best. Why? They are able to eliminate government restraints and taxes and establish monopolies by pushing aside those with fewer resources and more self-restraint to make huge profits from charging everyone more and paying poor people less. This result has occurred consistently in Latin America, Asia, and now Iraq whenever a country needs an international loan from the United States or the international agencies that it dominates.
As demonstrated in this book, the policy of the U.S. government has been to provide such an economic environment wherever possible. This result is often accomplished by subverting democratic governments to put military dictators in power, supporting the dictatorships with the latest military toys and training in torture, and making the economic changes be permanent so that later democracies cannot change them.
With the Bush administration, the policy has been accelerated to include direct invasions such as occurred in Iraq. The effect of these policies has been worsened by the Bush doctrine of outsourcing as many military and government functions as possible to high-priced private firms without holding them accountable for results.
The effect has been to subject nation after nation to widespread murder and abuse of citizens who don't agree with the economic policies, sale of valuable businesses and resources at way below market rates to rich companies and people, and to reduce economic activity levels by depression-standard amounts for 10-20 years.
Only recently have people interested in placing democratic interests above those who wealthy companies and people begun to strike back by refusing to accept U.S. policy when it comes to requiring unfettered capitalism.
The latest application of this U.S. policy is to use natural disasters to produce similar results as we observed after the Asian tsunami and hurricane Katrina in New Orleans.
The intellectual fig leaf for this doctrine belongs to Milton Friedman and his academic heirs from the University of Chicago and the University of California at Berkeley. The economic analysis behind these ideas seems to have never considered the way to implement the ideas. Instead with each new powerless country or group, the limits of rapid change are pushed harder. Why? It's really a class war of the ultra rich who can buy politicians and put them in office who need something to tell everyone else about why it's all a good idea. Naive economists make good front men for this effort.
When democracies work well, there's pendulum of public opinion that eventually swings well away from any extreme. Well, we are at such an extreme now in favor of letting the powerful grab whatever they want . . . as demonstrated in this fine book. I hope the pendulum swing will begin soon!
The main weakness of this book is in repeating its arguments a little too much without providing enough new evidence each time. The evidence is there, but the better stories are actually in the second half. If you feel in the beginning that Milton Friedman is being run down too much, wait. You'll eventually be convinced that Friedman's ideas had all of the appropriateness of Marx's on how to run a country to create a healthy society for all. Save us from theorists!
As demonstrated in this book, the policy of the U.S. government has been to provide such an economic environment wherever possible. This result is often accomplished by subverting democratic governments to put military dictators in power, supporting the dictatorships with the latest military toys and training in torture, and making the economic changes be permanent so that later democracies cannot change them.
With the Bush administration, the policy has been accelerated to include direct invasions such as occurred in Iraq. The effect of these policies has been worsened by the Bush doctrine of outsourcing as many military and government functions as possible to high-priced private firms without holding them accountable for results.
The effect has been to subject nation after nation to widespread murder and abuse of citizens who don't agree with the economic policies, sale of valuable businesses and resources at way below market rates to rich companies and people, and to reduce economic activity levels by depression-standard amounts for 10-20 years.
Only recently have people interested in placing democratic interests above those who wealthy companies and people begun to strike back by refusing to accept U.S. policy when it comes to requiring unfettered capitalism.
The latest application of this U.S. policy is to use natural disasters to produce similar results as we observed after the Asian tsunami and hurricane Katrina in New Orleans.
The intellectual fig leaf for this doctrine belongs to Milton Friedman and his academic heirs from the University of Chicago and the University of California at Berkeley. The economic analysis behind these ideas seems to have never considered the way to implement the ideas. Instead with each new powerless country or group, the limits of rapid change are pushed harder. Why? It's really a class war of the ultra rich who can buy politicians and put them in office who need something to tell everyone else about why it's all a good idea. Naive economists make good front men for this effort.
When democracies work well, there's pendulum of public opinion that eventually swings well away from any extreme. Well, we are at such an extreme now in favor of letting the powerful grab whatever they want . . . as demonstrated in this fine book. I hope the pendulum swing will begin soon!
The main weakness of this book is in repeating its arguments a little too much without providing enough new evidence each time. The evidence is there, but the better stories are actually in the second half. If you feel in the beginning that Milton Friedman is being run down too much, wait. You'll eventually be convinced that Friedman's ideas had all of the appropriateness of Marx's on how to run a country to create a healthy society for all. Save us from theorists!
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wow, this was stunning and basically ripped the clean cut mask of normality from the mean soulless beast that is neoliberalism revealing its true rather grim nature. In Chile under Pinochet, Russia under Jelzin, in post war Iraq and following Hurricane Katrina the same greedy opportunism is evident, wealthy private cabals enriching themselves at the cost of the masses. An important book if you want to gain insight and understand the disastrous dynamic that unfortunately appears to drive much of the modern world.
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Want to know what the neocon plan is? Then read this book, but don't blame me if you feel sick afterwards. Naomi Klein makes a tour through the "Free Market" capitalist philosophy as championed by Milton Friedman and practiced by Thatcher, Pinochet to Yelstin to Bush, Rumsfeld and Co.
Basically the doctorine described is: Smash and grab while everyone is too shocked and awed to notice. Actively creating a crisis is great for business. Rumsfeld & co have followed this concept to the extreme of instigating wars for private gain. Now he and his cronies are stinking rich, while 700,000 people lie dead in Iraq.
Get wise and rise up against this before it really is too late.
Basically the doctorine described is: Smash and grab while everyone is too shocked and awed to notice. Actively creating a crisis is great for business. Rumsfeld & co have followed this concept to the extreme of instigating wars for private gain. Now he and his cronies are stinking rich, while 700,000 people lie dead in Iraq.
Get wise and rise up against this before it really is too late.
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The book we all should read!
The way I know whether theories are true or not is by testing them against my perception of the world and what I was suspecting already. Lesen Sie weiter...
Vor 5 Monaten von Francisca veröffentlicht
Excellent analysis
If you want to know why the world seems to be coming apart, read Naomi Klein's book - disconcerting facts, excellent analysis.
Vor 6 Monaten von Mirrortalk veröffentlicht
well written but of all this is accurate or exaggerated?
I have read many books about politics, society, economy etc - majority of them if not all suffering from bad style, arguments repeated ad infinitum this is not the case here - the... Lesen Sie weiter...
Vor 8 Monaten von Jacek Wentland veröffentlicht
Shock and Awe
This awesome book was published in 2007, well before the 2008 banking crisis and the current, mid 2011, US debt and Euro crises. Lesen Sie weiter...
Vor 10 Monaten von P. A. Doornbos veröffentlicht
absolut empfehlenswert - shocking - und sehr, sehr realistisch
Dieses Buch ist eines der seltenen Bücher, die Zeitgeschichte über Jahrzehnte anhand von Echt-Dokumenten so aufbereitet, dass man die Auswirkungen in die heutige Zeit... Lesen Sie weiter...
Vor 11 Monaten von chris veröffentlicht
Ein absolutes Muss!
Politisch nicht ganz neutral, aber trotzdem mit enorm hohem Informationsgehalt diskutiert die Autorin umfassend Mechanismen der weltweit betriebenen Formen des Kapitalismus. Lesen Sie weiter...
Vor 23 Monaten von hessingerio veröffentlicht
Die Schock Doktrin
Klein bringt dem Leser schockierende Neuigkeiten!
Anhand von historischen Beispielen spannt Klein einen
Bogen von den Verhörmethoden der CIA zur schamlosen... Lesen Sie weiter...
Anhand von historischen Beispielen spannt Klein einen
Bogen von den Verhörmethoden der CIA zur schamlosen... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 14. April 2010 von M. Müller
Brennende Wirtschaftskritik
Naomi Kleins The Shock Doctrine klingt vielleicht nicht ganz unschuldig nach Alvin Tofflers Future Shock. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 2. April 2010 von Hans Dirk Schellnack
Nice but for politically endoctrinated
The book is nice, but although the writing is quite easy and factual, it tends more to present a counterperspective to the neocon/liberal point of view than an neutral approach to... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 30. März 2009 von P. Cipriano
Great
I would highly recommend this book to anyone who seeks to see how the information reported in the news daily fits in with our day to day lives. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 22. Januar 2009 von Saitoti
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