The Shock Doctrine, Naomi Klein
The Shock Doctrine, Naomi Klein
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The Shock Doctrine
The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

Author: Naomi Klein

Narrator: Jennifer Wiltsie

Abridged: 9 hr 1 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/18/2007


Synopsis

The bestselling author of No Logo shows how the global "free market" has exploited crises and shock for three decades, from Chile to Iraq

In her groundbreaking reporting, Naomi Klein introduced the term "disaster capitalism." Whether covering Baghdad after the U.S. occupation, Sri Lanka in the wake of the tsunami, or New Orleans post-Katrina, she witnessed something remarkably similar. People still reeling from catastrophe were being hit again, this time with economic "shock treatment," losing their land and homes to rapid-fire corporate makeovers.

The Shock Doctrine retells the story of the most dominant ideology of our time, Milton Friedman's free market economic revolution. In contrast to the popular myth of this movement's peaceful global victory, Klein shows how it has exploited moments of shock and extreme violence in order to implement its economic policies in so many parts of the world from Latin America and Eastern Europe to South Africa, Russia, and Iraq.

At the core of disaster capitalism is the use of cataclysmic events to advance radical privatization combined with the privatization of the disaster response itself. Klein argues that by capitalizing on crises, created by nature or war, the disaster capitalism complex now exists as a booming new economy, and is the violent culmination of a radical economic project that has been incubating for fifty years.

About Naomi Klein

Naomi Klein is the award-winning author of international bestsellers including This Changes Everything, The Shock Doctrine, No Logo, No Is Not Enough, and On Fire, which have been published in more than thirty-five languages. She is an associate professor in the department of geography at the University of British Columbia, the founding codirector of UBC’s Centre for Climate Justice, and an honorary professor of Media and Climate at Rutgers University. Her writing has appeared in leading publications around the world, and she is a columnist for The Guardian.

About Jennifer Wiltsie

Jennifer Wiltsie’s many audiobook credits include reading Emily Giffin's Something Blue, Isla Morley's Come Sunday, Nick Hornby's Juliet, Naked, and Maeve Binchy's Quentins, which won an AudioFile earphones award. Wiltsie has appeared on the hit television show The Sopranos as well as in the films Wendigo, Wirey Spindell, Uninvited, and Minor Details.  On Broadway she has performed with Matthew Broderick in Night Must Fall, and her off-Broadway credits include Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra. In London's West-End, she starred in Alan Ayckbourn's revival of Absurd Person Singular


Reviews

Goodreads review by Mario the lone bookwolf on November 21, 2021

This book can affect worldview, trust and faith in authorities, and belief in official, whitewashed history. Klein unleashes the shocking and disturbing facts of an economic policy practiced over more than four decades, that can be described as a new level of contempt for human beings and nature mix......more

Goodreads review by فايز غازي on June 13, 2023

- "عقيدة الصدمة: صعود رأسمالية الكوارث" هو احد الكتب المرجعية التأريخية التحليلية لكيفية اكتساح الدول اقتصادياً وخصخصتها وتدميرها لاحقاً، وهو كتاب اقتصادي - سياسي لكنه مكتوب بلغة صحافية سهلة الفهم ومدعّم بمراجع هائلة (المراجع تقارب ال100 صفحة) تضفي عليه مصداقية كبيرة مما يجعله كتاباً علينا اقتناءه و......more

Goodreads review by Bill on February 27, 2019

Using shock treatment as a metaphor, Klein analyzes the importance of economic dislocations and disasters to the success of Milton Friedman's free market philosophy. This is an important book, and shows why the apparent stupidities of the Bush administration in Iraq and Katrina are actually delibera......more

Goodreads review by David on July 10, 2020

I only got about ¼ into this. I don't like the shifty way Klein argues her points. I felt like I was being propagandized rather than educated. Much of her main “shock doctrine” argument seems to be just sort of a tightly-woven set of linguistic parallels that are meant to suggest causation. Something......more

Goodreads review by Will on February 15, 2014

This was a very illuminating work about how chaotic situations are used, and sometimes created, as cover for the imposition of drastic economic and political reorganization in vulnerable economies. The end product of these actions is a so-called free market model as advocated by the Chicago School o......more


Quotes

“A movement bible.” —The New York Times on No Logo

“Klein is a sharp cultural critic and flawless storyteller. Her analysis is thorough and thoroughly engaging.” —Newsweek.com on No Logo


Awards

  • Warwick Prize for Writing Winner
  • Publishers Weekly Listen Up Awards: Best in Category