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.

Book which everyone must read. Delivery and packing both are absolutely on time and fairly standard.
A elobrative and deep look at Disaster accuring due Capitalism and it’s policies.
Using shock treatment as a metaphor, Klein analyzes the importance of economic dislocations and disasters to the success of Milton Friedman's free market philosophy. This is an important book, and shows why the apparent stupidities of the Bush administration in Iraq and Katrina are actually deliberate measures de...

The book is ripe with information and facts well in place making her argument against the evils of capitalism. The only problem is that the facts are twisted and distorted towards her bias. She portrays that governments and companies view disruptions like war, economic depression and natural disasters as opportunities to impose radical solutions which will benefit them. Each chapter is dedicated to a disrupted event and how these evil governments and corporations who are hand in glove with e...

the book shows association of recently used shock tactics -used by economists and agenda fixers to influential world economy and policy - to sinister links between intelligence agencies and overly ambitious social scientists and psychiatrists.