false 1237300 0805079831 9780805079838 2546 729 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1191192741m/1237300.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1237300.The_Shock_Doctrine_The_Rise_of_Disaster_Capitalism 419 Naomi Klein 5529 1050 5 0 false Thu May 14 15:21:03 -0700 2009 Sat Feb 28 21:56:59 -0800 2009 Thu May 14 15:21:03 -0700 2009
The most edifying thing about this book is the way it shows how economics and politics have been severed from one another, in order to continue the political spin that fundamentalist capitalist economies are somehow good for the people for whom they are causing increased unemployment, poverty, disease, crime - and make no mistake about it, it caused all those things in every country Milton Friedman and Jeffery Sachs advised on economic matters.

The big question Klein elucidates on page 297 is whether the proponents of free market capitalism really believe their ideologies can have a positive outcome, or is this just a front for their greed and more sinister motives? And this question is critical to knowing how to fight. ]]>