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The shock doctrine [sound recording] : the rise of disaster capitalism / Naomi Klein.

by Klein, Naomi, 1970-

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Audio Renaissance, p2007.

COMPACT DISC 330.122 K64s

Free enterprise.

Financial crises.

[sound recording] :

7 compact discs (9 hrs.) : digital ; 12 cm.

Read by Jennifer Wiltsie.

"In her ground-breaking 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."--Publisher.

Adult books on CD.

Wiltsie, Jennifer.

Audio Renaissance (Firm)

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