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• Title:The shock doctrine : the rise of disaster capitalism / Naomi Klein.
  
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• Author/Creator:Klein, Naomi, 1970-
  
• Published/Created:New York : Picador, [2008].
  

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  • Location:OKANAGAN LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: HB95 .K54 2008
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:c.1 Lost - 11-25-2022
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Free enterprise.
  Financial crises.
  Capitalism.
  
• Description:701 pages ; 21 cm
  
• Summary:The bestselling author of "No Logo" argues that by capitalizing on crises, created by nature or war, the disaster capitalism complex now exists as a booming new economy, and is the violent culmination of a radical economic project that has been incubating for 50 years.
  
• Notes:Originally published: New York : Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt, 2007.
  Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9780312427993 (pbk.)
  0312427999 (pbk.)
  
• Contents:Introduction : Blank is beautiful: three decades of erasing and remaking the world
  Part 1. Two doctor shocks: research and development : The torture lab: Ewen Cameron, the CIA and the maniacal quest to erase and remake the human mind
  The other doctor shock: Milton Friedman and the search for a Laissez-Faire laboratory
  Part 2. The first test: birth pangs : States of shock: the blood birth of the counterrevolution
  Cleaning the slate: terror does its work
  "Entirely unrelated": how an ideology was cleansed of its crimes
  Part 3. Surviving democracy: bombs made of laws : Saved by a war: Thatcherism and its useful enemies
  The new doctor shock: economic warfare replaces dictatorship
  Crisis works: the packaging of shock therapy
  Part 4. Lost in transition: while we wept, while we trembled, while we danced : Slamming the door on history: a crisis in Poland, a massacre in China
  Democracy born in chains: South Africa's constricted freedom
  Bonfire of a young democracy: Russia chooses "the Pinochet option"
  The capitalist id: Russia and the new era of the boor
  Let it burn: the looting of Asia and "the fall of a second Berlin wall"
  Part 5. Shocking times: the rise of the disaster capitalism complex : Shock therapy in the U.S.A.: the Homeland Security bubble
  A corporatist state: removing the revolving door, putting in an archway
  Part 6. Iraq, full circle: overshock : Erasing Iraq: in search of a "model" for the Middle East
  Ideological blowback: a very capitalist disaster
  Full circle: from blank slate to scorched earth
  Part 7. The movable green zone: buffer zones and blast walls
  Blanking the beach: "the second tsunami"
  Disaster apartheid: a world of green zones and red zones
  Losing the peace incentive: Israel as warning
  Conclusion: Shock wears off: the rise of people's reconstruction.