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 enlarge | Author: Naomi Klein
Publisher: Picador
Category: Book
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Rating:  341 reviews
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Pages: 720
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Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 5.5 x 1.4
ISBN: 0312427999
Dewey Decimal Number: 330.122
EAN: 9780312427993
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Publication Date: June 24, 2008
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 A thoroughly discredited heap of distortions November 14, 2008
6 out of 23 found this review helpful
Klein caters to her socialist audience with this work of astonishingly blatant distortions and falsehoods, knowing that it will sell to the true believers and that she'll get away with it. But don't look here for real scholarship. Her straw-man case against Friedman and free-markets it so blatantly distorted and fabricated that any gems of truth are lost in the mire.
Read the other one-star reviews for some details, and for a more thorough analysis read Johan Norberg's review in the October 2008 issue of Reason magazine, which shows how thoroughly Klein actually gets Friedman's position, and many facts about economics, exactly backward across the board. To accomplish that requires more than error, it indicates a deliberate attempt to deceive.
 Naomi Klein-Shock Doctrine November 14, 2008
1 out of 6 found this review helpful
In regard to my purchase of "Shock Doctrine" by Naomi Klein, the seller was very prompt with the shipping and the condition of the book was excellent as advertised. I had no problems with payment via the Amazon website:is very easy to navigate. I am a return shopper at Amazon and do not see that changing in the near future. The selection is great. I have not begun the book yet, but I am acquainted with it through talk radio review and a friend's review of it. I am also familiar with Naomi's work and have such respect for her moral and ethical stands. I am looking forward to getting the details of this book for myself.
Carl
Naomi Klein, Sockingly Stupid November 14, 2008
1 out of 9 found this review helpful
Read the other 1-star reviews, they pretty much sum things up. If you like Michael Moore's lies, you'll like this book. For some follow up reading I suggest Johan Norberg's essay "The Klein Doctrine, The Rise of Disaster Polemics".
Get this book now! November 14, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Klein uncovers Freidmanite economic policy and shows it as it is: a cold, callous model in which the rich get richer and the hell with everyone else. By the time we have followed the trail of destruction that the Chicago School has left in its wake, we come to expect the horrifying, yet natural progression of its policy, which is that of disaster capitalism. This book is an amazing eye opener.
A real eye opener November 11, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
If you thought you knew about America, and it's foreign policy for the past 50 years, wait 'til you read this book. The idea that these things are being done, in our name, in places all over the world, is a crime. Pray, that under a new president the methods and tactics used by our country will cease, immediately. "The Shock Doctrine" will shock you. I promise.
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