The Shock Doctrine  (English, Paperback, Klein Naomi)

This is a book that lays bare the economic and political thoughts of the last four decades and shows that how the desires of a few capitalists to maximise the gains backed by some thinkers caused havoc in the different countries of the world at different times. Sufferers are the poor people who have no idea about the intricate way in which some of the institutions established in the name of removing poverty and providing better governance in the world have actually caused hardships in their l...

What is the book about?
The book presents a thesis which goes like this – fundamentalist capitalists are increasingly exploiting spontaneous/engineered shocks to put in place a nefarious capitalist system. These shocks are sometime inevitable like floods or some other natural calamities. Most of the times they are man made traumas like a coup. This ‘doctrine’ was devilishly termed by its proponents as ‘Economic Shock Treatment.”



The whole idea is that the economic system is so extremely un...

Original book, great quality, delivery condition could have been better but overall a good experience given I paid under 300 for it.