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 over the past few years, 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.