The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein

The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein

In this groundbreaking alternative history of the most dominant ideology of our time, Milton Friedman's free-market economic revolution, Naomi Klein challenges the popular myth of this movement's peaceful global victory. From Chile in 1973 to Iraq today, Klein shows how Friedman and his followers have repeatedly harnessed terrible shocks and violence to implement their radical policies. As John Gray wrote in The Guardian, There are very few books that really help us understand the present. The Shock Doctrine is one of those books.

Naomi Klein is the award-winning author of the international bestseller No Logo, which was voted one of the hundred most important Canadian books ever published by The Literary Review of Canada. She's also the author of Fences and Windows, a collection of essays. She co-wrote the documentary film The Take with Avi Lewis, which was an Official Selection of the Venice Biennale and received the Best Documentary Jury Award at the American Film Institute's Film Festival in Los Angeles. She is a contributing editor for Harper's, a reporter for Rolling Stone, and the author of a syndicated column that is read all over the world. The James Aronson Prize for Social Justice Journalism was given to her.

She is a former Miliband Fellow at the London School of Economics and the recipient of an honorary Doctor of Civil Laws from the University of King's College in Nova Scotia. She was born in Montreal and now resides in Toronto.