![]() ![]() ![]() “It was in 1982 that Milton Friedman wrote the highly influential passage that best summarizes the shock doctrine: ‘Only a crisis – actual or perceived – produces real change. ![]() The key to understanding this process is the rise of ‘disaster capitalism’. It charts how a radical lobby created the neoliberal economic model which dominates the world how that model was introduced from the 1970s and how it was supercharged after the Millennium through natural and deliberately manufactured ‘disasters’. Though written 15 years ago, ‘The Shock Doctrine’ still has a lot to tell us about events today. A landmark book which argues neoliberal free market policies have arisen as a deliberate strategy of ‘shock therapy’, exploiting national crises to enact questionable policies while citizens are too distracted to resist effectively. ![]()
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