The shock doctrine : the rise of disaster capitalism /
Naomi Klein.
- First edition.
- 558 pages ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : blank is beautiful : three decades of erasing and remaking the world -- Two doctor shocks : research and development -- The torture lab : Ewen Cameron, the CIA and the maniacal quest to erase and remake the human mind -- The other doctor shock : Milton Friedman and the search for a Laissez-Faire laboratory -- The first test : birth pangs -- States of shock : the bloody birth of the counterrevolution -- Cleaning the slate : terror does its work -- "Entirely unrelated" : how an ideology was cleansed of its crimes -- Surviving democracy : bombs made of laws -- Saved by a war : Thatcherism and its useful enemies -- The new doctor shock : economic warfare replaces dictatorship -- Crisis works : the packaging of shock therapy -- Lost in transition : while we wept, while we trembled, while we danced -- Slamming the door on history : a crisis in Poland, a massacre in China -- Democracy born in chains : South Africa's constricted freedom -- Bonfire of a young democracy : Russia chooses "the Pinochet option" -- The capitalist Id : Russia and the new era of the boor market -- Let it burn : the looting of Asia and "the fall of a second Berlin Wall" -- Shocking times : the rise of the disaster capitalism complex -- Shock therapy in the U.S.A. : the homeland security bubble -- A corporatist state : removing the revolving door, putting in an archway -- Iraq, full circle : overshock -- Erasing Iraq : in search of a "model" for the Middle East -- Ideological blowback : a very capitalist disaster -- Full circle : from blank slate to scorched earth -- The movable green zone : buffer zones and blast walls -- Blanking the beach : "the second tsunami" -- Disaster apartheid : a world of green zones and red zones -- Losing the peace incentive : Israel as warning -- Conclusion : shock wears off : the rise of people's reconstruction. Pt. 1. 1. 2. Pt. 2. 3. 4. 5. Pt. 3. 6. 7. 8. Pt. 4. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. Pt. 5. 14. 15. Pt. 6. 16. 17. 18. Pt. 7. 19. 20. 21.