The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster CapitalismThe bestselling author of No Logo shows how the global "free market" has exploited crises and shock for three decades, from Chile to Iraq |
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... Fund directors and the past three chiefs of the U.S. Federal Reserve. Yet his determination to exploit the crisis in New Orleans to advance a fundamentalist version of capitalism was also an oddly fitting farewell from the boundlessly ...
... Fund. The three trademark demands—privatization, government deregulation and deep cuts to social spending—tended to be extremely unpopular with citizens, but when the agreements were signed there was still at least the pretext of mutual ...
... fund the program. When the first group of Chileans returned home from Chicago, they were “even more Friedmanite than Friedman himself,” in the words of Mario Zañartu, an economist at Santiago's Catholic University.*28 Many took up posts ...
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Contents
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PART 2 The First Test Birth Pangs | 89 |
PART 3 Surviving Democracy Bombs Made of Laws | 161 |
PART 4 Lost in Transition While We Wept While We Trembled While We Danced | 213 |
PART 5 Shocking Times The Rise of the Disaster Capitalism Complex | 355 |
PART 6 Iraq Full Circle Overshock | 409 |
PART 7 The Movable Green Zone Buffer Zones and Blast Walls | 485 |
CONCLUSION Shock Wears Off The Rise of Peoples Reconstruction | 560 |
Notes | 591 |
Acknowledgments | 667 |
Index | 677 |