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Harvard Book Store Presents...
Metropolitan Books
Price: $28.00
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NAOMI KLEIN discusses The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
Klein, best-selling author of No Logo, retells the story of Milton Friedman’s free-market economic revolution and the myth of its peaceful global victory—detailing how it has exploited moments of shock and extreme violence to implement its economic policies from Latin America and Eastern Europe to South Africa, Russia, and Iraq. "The neo-liberal economic policies—privatization, free trade, slashed social spending—that the Chicago School and Friedman have foisted on the world are catastrophic in two senses, argues this vigorous polemic. Because their results are disastrous—depressions, mass poverty, private corporations looting public wealth, by the author's accounting—their means must be cataclysmic, dependent on political upheavals and natural disasters as coercive pretexts for free-market reforms the public would normally reject. Journalist Klein chronicles decades of such disasters, including the Chicago School makeovers launched by South American coups; the corrupt sale of Russia's state economy to oligarchs following the collapse of the Soviet Union; the privatization of New Orleans's public schools after Katrina; and the seizure of wrecked fishing villages by resort developers after the Asian tsunami. ... a powerful populist indictment of economic orthodoxy." --Publisher's Weekly
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| DATE: |
Thursday, September 20th |
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6:00 PM |
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Brattle Theatre
40 Brattle Street
Cambridge |
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Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist, syndicated columnist, and author of the international bestseller No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies. Klein writes a regular column for The Nation that is syndicated internationally by The New York Times Syndicate. A collection of her work, Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debate was published in 2002. In 2004, she released The Take, a feature documentary about Argentina’s occupied factories, co-produced with director Avi Lewis. The film was an official selection of the Venice Biennale and won the Best Documentary Jury Prize at the American Film Institute’s Film Festival in Los Angeles. Klein is a frequent media commentator and a former Miliband Fellow at the London School of Economics.
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