The Shock Doctrine

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**The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism**
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Author	Naomi Klein
Country	Canada
Language	English
Subject(s)	Economics
Genre(s)	Non-fiction
Publisher	Knopf Canada (first edition)
Publication date	4 September 2007
Media type	Print (hardcover)
Pages	672(first edition)
ISBN	978-0-676-97800-1 (hardcover)

The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism is a 2007 book by Canadian journalist Naomi Klein.

The Shock Doctrine by Alfonso Cuarón and Naomi Klein [1] is also a related short film, available on YouTube.

The book and film argue that the free market policies of Milton Friedman and the Chicago School of Economics have risen to prominence in countries such as Chile under Pinochet, Russia under Yeltsin, the United States (for example in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina), and the privatization of Iraq's economy under the Coalition Provisional Authority not because they were democratically popular, but because they were pushed through while the citizens of these countries were in shock from disasters or upheavals.

[edit] Reviews

The Shock Doctrine has received many positive reviews, including those from the Dow Jones Business News ^[1], The New York Times^[2], and The Guardian^[3].

It has also received negative reviews and strong criticisms from economists such as Tyler Cowen^[4] and Anders Åslund. ^[5] The book's depiction of Russia under Yeltsin is disputed by Slate Journalist Fred Kaplan.^[6]

[edit] Notes and references

^ Farrell, Paul. "War, Terror, Catastrophe: Profiting From 'Disaster Capitalism'", Dow Jones Business News, 2007-10-16.
^ Stiglitz, Joseph. "Bleakonomics", New York Times, 2007-09-30.
^ Gray, John. "The End of the World as We Know It", The Guardian, 2007-09-15.
^ Cowen, Tyler. "Shock Jock", 2007-10-03.
^ "Free-Market Mischief in Hot Spots of Disaster", New York Times, 2007-09-10. Retrieved on 2007-11-27.
^ Kaplan, Fred. "Blame Yeltsin", Slate, 2007-10-02.