The Shock Doctrine

Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist, syndicated columnist, documentary filmmaker and author of the international bestsellers No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism and This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate. She is a senior correspondent for The Intercept and her writing appears widely in such publications as The New York Times, Le Monde, The Guardian and The Nation, where she is a contributing editor. Klein is a member of the board of directors for climate-action group 350.org and one of the organizers behind Canada’s Leap Manifesto. In November 2016 she was awarded Australia’s prestigious Sydney Peace Prize for, according to the prize jury, “inspiring us to stand up locally, nationally and internationally to demand a new agenda for sharing the planet that respects human rights and equality.” Her books have been translated into more than thirty languages.

出版者:Metropolitan Books

作者:Naomi Klein

页数:558

出版时间:2007-09-18

价格:USD 28.00

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780805079838

图书标签:EconomicsNaomiKleinPolitics政治经济学经济学社会科学社会学nonfiction

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.

读后感

Naomi Klein的The Shock Doctrine不是一本新书。它在数年前一出版时我就因为《纽约时报》的书评知道它，但直到今日连中文版和电影都出了之后我才读它。 之所以放着此书不读，很大原因是早期此书的电子版无法找到，于是我先买了一本Klein的No Logo看看此人水平怎样。看过那本书...  

Naomi Klein的The Shock Doctrine不是一本新书。它在数年前一出版时我就因为《纽约时报》的书评知道它，但直到今日连中文版和电影都出了之后我才读它。 之所以放着此书不读，很大原因是早期此书的电子版无法找到，于是我先买了一本Klein的No Logo看看此人水平怎样。看过那本书...  

https://fivebooks.com/interview/george-monbiot-essential-reading-list/ Naomi Klein’s The Shock Doctrine explores what she calls ‘disaster capitalism’. What is that? The Shock Doctrine explains some of the mechanisms by which patrimonial capital acquires ...  

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用户评价

G师熊猫师给了两星，我觉得这个结果不太公道！

中英版对比看的，绝对好书。对于休克主义和全球化有了另一种解读和全新认识。中文版被删节的内容，可以到英文版里找，读过会对中国的经济形态和那个event有全新的认识。印象深刻的是关于中国和南非经济转型那部分，基本颠覆了我过往的认识。你可以知道，为什么我们活的如此不快乐，从一个更宏观和更隐蔽的视角来看。

偏见太多，以至于养分不足

No Logo的同一个作者。Milton Friedman在Naomi Klein看来是个罪魁祸首，是邪恶的。所谓的shock doctrine就是把一套的观念施加于一个强烈受挫的民族，人群或个人。比如9.11后的美国，Katrina后的New Orleans，战后的伊拉克，她还提到中国的六四风波，都是利用了受惊吓的人们，乘机将私有化，deregulation，削减福利，即资本主义，加于可怜的人们头上。在你还来不及反抗的时候，另一个灾难－“资本主义灾难”就已经降临了。不过她作为一个journalist尽情

Mind blowing...