The Shock Doctrine

副标题: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

ISBN: 9780805079838

出版社: Metropolitan Books

出版年: 2007-09-18

页数: 558

定价: USD 28.00

装帧: Hardcover

内容简介

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.

From Publishers Weekly

The neo-liberal economic policies—privatization, free trade, slashed social spending—that the Chicago School and the economist Milton Friedman have foisted on the world are catastrophic in two senses, argues this vigorous polemic. Because their results are disastrous—depressions, mass poverty, private corporations looting public wealth, by the author's accounting—their means must be cataclysmic, dependent on political upheavals and natural disasters as coercive pretexts for free-market reforms the public would normally reject. Journalist Klein (No Logo) chronicles decades of such disasters, including the Chicago School makeovers launched by South American coups; the corrupt sale of Russia's state economy to oligarchs following the collapse of the Soviet Union; the privatization of New Orleans's public schools after Katrina; and the seizure of wrecked fishing villages by resort developers after the Asian tsunami. Klein's economic and political analyses are not always meticulous. Likening free-market shock therapies to electroshock torture, she conflates every misdeed of right-wing dictatorships with their economic programs and paints a too simplistic picture of the Iraq conflict as a struggle over American-imposed neo-liberalism. Still, much of her critique hits home, as she demonstrates how free-market ideologues welcome, and provoke, the collapse of other people's economies. The result is a powerful populist indictment of economic orthodoxy.

作者简介

娜奥米·克莱恩，（Naomi Klehin），1970年生于加拿大蒙特利尔，记者、畅销书作家、社会活动家、反全球化分子、电影制片人，以其对全球化的批判闻名于世。处女作《NO LOGO》（中译本：广西师范大学出版社，2009年）一书，引起全球广泛回响。她被《泰晤士报》誉为“可能是三十五岁以下对世界最具影响力的人士”，《纽约时报》亦称她“隐然是北美左派运动的代表”。在大卫·赫尔曼的《全球公共知识分子排行榜》中，克莱恩排行第11位，在世界公共知识分子中占有相当重要的地位。作者2007年所著《休克主义：灾难资本主义的兴起》一书，对新自由主义和芝加哥学派发起最有力的挑战，2009年赢得了首届华威奖，再次赢得巨大的声誉。

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