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The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism Paperback – 1 May 2008

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'Impassioned, hugely informative, wonderfully controversial, and scary as hell' John le Carré

Around the world in Britain, the United States, Asia and the Middle East, there are people with power who are cashing in on chaos; exploiting bloodshed and catastrophe to brutally remake our world in their image. They are the shock doctors.

Exposing these global profiteers, Naomi Klein discovered information and connections that shocked even her about how comprehensively the shock doctors' beliefs now dominate our world - and how this domination has been achieved. Raking in billions out of the tsunami, plundering Russia, exploiting Iraq - this is the chilling tale of how a few are making a killing while more are getting killed.

'Packed with thinking dynamite ... a book to be read everywhere' John Berger

'If you only read one non-fiction book this year, make it this one' Metro Books of the Year

'There are a few books that really help us understand the present. The Shock Doctrine is one of those books' John Gray, Guardian

'A brilliant book written with a perfectly distilled anger, channelled through hard fact. She has indeed surpassed No Logo' Independent

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576 pages
Language

English
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Penguin
Publication date

1 May 2008
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12.9 x 2.5 x 19.8 cm
ISBN-10

9780141024530
ISBN-13

978-0141024530
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Impassioned, hugely informative, wonderfully controversial, and scary as hell ― John le Carré

Packed with thinking dynamite … a book to be read everywhere ― John Berger

If you read only one non-fiction book this year, make it this one -- , Books of the Year ― Metro

There are few books that really help us understand the present. The Shock Doctrine is one of those books -- John Gray ― Guardian

Lucid, calm, impeccably researched, gorgeously readable -- , Books of the Year ― Observer

A brilliant, brave and terrifying book ― Arundhati Roy

Powerful … epic … dramatic ― Daily Telegraph

A brilliant book written with a perfectly distilled anger, channelled through hard fact. She has indeed surpassed No Logo ― Independent

Excoriating … passionate and informed … Her prose packs a punch ― Scotsman

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ 0141024534
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Penguin; 1st edition (1 May 2008)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 576 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780141024530
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0141024530
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 12.9 x 2.5 x 19.8 cm

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anon

My eyes were opened by this book! Essential reading

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 17 June 2020

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Not sensationalist. Not speculative. Level-headed. Extensively documented.

I checked online for criticism of this work and it was quite telling to see that;
1) there is not many negative reviews,
2) those that exist tend to be either very non-specific and defamatory OR pick up on a single issue they disagree with - let's face it, in a book of this size covering so much ground, would it be humanly possible to not make a single mistake? So although I am not in a position to know if Naomi or her critiques are correct on those few specific points, it doesn't really detract (imo) from 95% of the book content and message.

Overall the message is very sobering but I literally do feel this book has changed the way I see and hear the news . I am also struggling to know what to do with the burden of sobering new (for me) knowledge.

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P. Bradley

Deeply depressing

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 27 November 2018

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Yes a deeply depressing book... but a 5 star review. But some things are like that. If you're the type who prefers blissful ignorance then avoid this book.

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Andy

A shuddering insight into the global atrocities that have occurred in the name of capitalism.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 18 February 2018

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An eye opening collection of some seriously shocking facts. All too often, books like this are based entirely on opinion. However, this is one of the most well referenced books that I have ever read. Klein provides about 60 pages of referencing enabling readers to verify each and all of the claims made in this book. American Republicans don't come out too well in this book but us Brits have to take a share of the blame too, particularly during our Thatcher years.

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Natasha Brown

A very large, political book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 May 2020

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I got this on a recommendation from a friend. I love non fiction but this is not my usual genre of reading. I wanted to broaden my knowledge on capitalism and how governments take control over a people amidst the CV 2020 pandemic.

I read the first 100 pages but then gave up. It is a little too political for me and too be honest too long!! 500 pages is a considerable amount to sit through unless a book is really exceptional!
There wasn't neccissarily anything wrong with the book, perhaps it is just not my area of interest, it just didn't hold me enough to continue. If you're into politics the is a very persuasive read and well written. Hence the4 star rating.

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Dan Online

Exposes the exploitation of disasters by the rich and powerful

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 July 2021

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My 2nd copy - lent the first one, never seen it since! What Naomi Klein is writing about is happening right now, here in the UK. You'll read it with growing understanding, and growing anger at the blatant manipulation which is polarising global wealth. "Famine or feast, the rich win either way' is Klein's message, but as with her other books she points to solutions and alternatives.
Can't rate this too highly as a watertight argument against disaster capitalism and the misery it is wreaking on the planet, its flora and fauna - including us.

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Orrery

benefiting the wealthy and impoverishing the poor and hat this can only be accomplished using some ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 17 May 2016

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This book is a "must read" if you want to know what is going on with the economy and politics today. Naomi Klein explains how country after country has been transformed into neo-liberal economies, benefiting the wealthy and impoverishing the poor and hat this can only be accomplished using some sort of 'shock' to justify it.

Read it and you will understand what is going on with "austerity" and why our public services are being hollowed out, and why the process has already been discredited.

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W. Scott

A Brilliant and Important work

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 17 March 2015

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I do not expect ever to read a better book on economics and politics. It is VERY important! The style is clear and lucid, masterly. It highlights the defects of capitalism, especially the defects of those promolgating it: The US, the Chicago Boys and the many dictators, quasi dictators and politicians taken in by them in thousands of cases, all referenced, assembled impeccably and the weight of evidence astronomic. The thesis seems to be that many countries of the world have changed their economic arrangements, suddenly, to provide a laissez faire form of capitalism all of it based on the Chicago Boys: Milton Friedman, Hayek, Harburger et al. This being the perceived ideal form. Friedman even got a Nobel for it. In every case there was abject failure. Overnight all the firms owned by the nations were sold off, invariably to US companies or locals at a thousandth of the actual value (in the case of Russia). All the normal services having fallen apart because of the shock application of this new politics, there were complaints and even riots. These were stopped by the people involved being 'disappeared': loaded into a plane, flown over a wide river and thrown out: food for
crocodiles. In one such country the deficit before the shock was 3 billion. Twenty years later it was 103 billion: 5 billion a year, most of it going into the pockets of fat cats, some of them economists favouring the change and big companies like Ford. What seems is clear is that laissez faire capitalism is not only theoretically defunct but

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Tim Higgins

Conspiracy theory that actually seems more than theory

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 21 March 2014

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Many books can just be dismissed as conspiracy theory. Even many good books get that thrown at them from their detractors just to lump them together with crap books by nutters and looneys. Klein doesn't try to show any sort of 'hidden' group of people in secret rooms who mumble strange mantras together, but highlights various political figures and events, from Pinochet's Chile through Reagan and Thatcher, to Iraq, and shows a common ethos and philosophy that will shock you. There are some links between these people but not like they all belong to some secret club. Their agendas just happen to be from the same mindset and political stable.

If you're hunting for the Illuminati, go find another book. This is just real politics, and stranger and worse than any 'conspiracy' I've come across. Fairly easy to read, too.

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