Books by Naomi Klein
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The shock doctrine
Every claim is wrong
(2007-09-19)
I wondered whether that can be said of Naomi Klein’s new The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism . Still, at some fundamental level I liked this book. Perhaps I still had the Greenspan memoir too fresh in my mind, but at least this text is alive. Yes she refuses to admit that Chilean reforms, however horrible the accompanying atrocities, did represent a success for market economics . Yes she misstates the role of Milton Friedman in just about everything. Yes she suggests that bl...