![]() When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around.” Naomi Klein examines some of what she considers the most dangerous ideas - Friedmanite economics - and exposes how catastrophic events are both extremely profitable to corporations and have also allowed governments to push through what she calls “disaster capitalism.” It’s called The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism.Įconomist Milton Friedman once said, “Only a crisis produces real change. Award-winning investigative journalist Naomi Klein brings together all these world-changing events in her new book. AMY GOODMAN: Pinochet’s coup in Chile, the massacre in Tiananmen Square, the collapse of the Soviet Union, September 11th, the war on Iraq, the Asian tsunami and Hurricane Katrina. ![]()
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