Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9780141024530
ISBN: 0141024534
Label: Penguin
Manufacturer: Penguin
Number Of Pages: 576
Publication Date: May 01, 2008
Publisher: Penguin
Studio: Penguin

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Rating: - yes but...
Readable, passionate, but... if true, the latest financial crash would have seen another swift extension of market power. But does govt control or ownership of the banks, talk of aggressive new regulation or the 'end of capitalism' sound like capitalism making hay? Are we really seeing a retreat from govt or state activity in the face of recession?

On the contrary, this latest shock is widely described as a disaster for capitalism. The doctrine fails its first test. The former chairman ... Read More

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Rating: - Totally mindblowing
This is my first ever review on Amazon. No book has ever moved me to want to take action before like The Shock Dcotrine. Ok, so writing an Amazon review isn't going to change the world but getting as many people as possible to read this book is a step in the right direction.

A friend who recommended the book to me said it was powerful, but I wasn't prepared for just how powerful. Page after page I felt real physical rage and disbelief at how these horrific and world changing events have ... Read More

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Rating: - Yuck
Even though it was valuable for me to learn what is really going on, I read this book with a mixture of revulsion and horror. I was certainly shocked to learn about the tripartite economic recipe - privatisation, deregulation, and cutbacks in social welfare spending - repeatedly used around the world by a so-called democracy via highly non-democratic means.

In the early years, the primary shock vehicle was dictatorial military force and accompanying fear of - and actual mass use of - arrest, ... Read More

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Rating: - Complex, Compelling, Horrifying, an Important Book
"The Shock Doctrine" is a thoroughly good read in which Naomi Klein sets out to illustrate the spread of the economic doctrine of the late economist Milton Friedman and of the Chicago School of Economics; to illustrate the use of force (backed by U.S government in a number of cases) by right-wing governments and exploitation of natural disaster and conflict to push through unpopular economic reforms (based on Friedman's doctrine), and how such governments are putting big business first to line their own pockets ... Read More

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Rating: - Scandal: Sometimes people profit when bad things happen. Film at eleven!
First, disclosure: I enjoyed No Logo a great deal, it informed a lot of the way I think about corporations and changed the way I bought clothes. I read the Guardian when I get a chance, and am addicted to the Daily Show. So please don't think that my review is based on having a radically different philosophy to Ms Klein.

I didn't like this book. The main thrust of the book is that there are theorists who believe that you can only change things when a big shock to the system happens; an earthquake, 9/11, ... Read More

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