Title - The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (2007) Author - Naomi Klein
Narrator - Jennifer Wiltsie
Runtime - Nine Hours [Abridged]
Language Variety- North American English (F)
Genre- Political History
Book Description
The Shock Doctrine argues that the free market policies of Nobel Laureate 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.
