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I love portions of this book and the eviscerating diatribe on disaster capitalism, something I think I understood existed, but didn't have deep detail on. This provided it.
However there are other portions of the book that really seem to stray, and I don't totally buy the direct connection Klein attempts to make between shock therapy and the political shock doctrine. Just because an analogy can be made does not mean that one is of necessity linked to the other. The passages where she focuses spec ...more
However there are other portions of the book that really seem to stray, and I don't totally buy the direct connection Klein attempts to make between shock therapy and the political shock doctrine. Just because an analogy can be made does not mean that one is of necessity linked to the other. The passages where she focuses spec ...more
Dec 23, 2008
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I read half this book about a year ago, but stopped reading it to pursue other book interests. Very informative, but kinda dry. I'll restart it soon.
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