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SHOCK DOCTRINE
KLEIN M. wydawnictwo: PENGUIN , rok wydania 2007, wydanie I cena netto: 110.00 Twoja cena 104,50 zł + 5% vat - dodaj do koszyka In this groundbreaking book, the bestselling author of "No Logo" exposes the
gripping story of how America's 'free market' policies have come to dominate the world -
through the exploitation of disaster-shocked people and countries. At the most chaotic
juncture in Iraq's civil war, a new law is unveiled that would allow Shell and BP to claim
the country's vast oil reserves. Immediately following September 11, the Bush
Administration quietly out-sources the running of the 'War on Terror' to Halliburton and
Blackwater.
After a powerful tsunami devastates the coasts of Southeast Asia, the pristine beaches are
auctioned off to tourist resorts. New Orleans' residents, still scattered from Hurricane
Katrina, discover that their public housing, hospitals and schools will never be
reopened.These events are examples of what Naomi Klein calls 'the shock doctrine': the use
of public disorientation following massive collective shocks - wars, terrorist attacks,
natural disasters - to push through unpopular economic measures often called 'shock
therapy'. Sometimes, when the first two shocks don't succeed in wiping out all resistance,
a third is employed: that of the electrode in the prison cell or of the Taser gun.
Based on breakthrough historical research and four years of on-the-ground reporting in
disaster zones, "The Shock Doctrine" explodes the myth that the global free
market triumphed democratically. Disaster capitalism - the rapid-fire corporate
reengineering of societies that are reeling from shock - did not begin with September 11,
2001.Klein traces its intellectual origins back fifty years to the University of Chicago's
economics department under Milton Friedman, whose influence is still felt around the
world. She draws new and surprising connections between economic policy, 'shock and awe'
warfare and covert CIA-funded experiments in electroshock and sensory deprivation in the
1950s; research that helped write the torture manuals used today in Guantanamo Bay.
As Klein shows how the deliberate use of the shock doctrine produced world-changing events
from Pinochet's coup in Chile in 1973 to the Tiananmen Square Massacre in 1989 and the
collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, she tells a story radically different from the one
usually heard. Once again Naomi Klein has written a book that will reframe the debate.
576 pages, Hardback
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