The Shock Doctrine - The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

[This book] explores the myth that the global free market triumphed democratically ... [It] traces the intellectual origins of disaster capitalism back to the University of Chicago's economics department under Milton Friedman, whose influence is still felt around the world. [The book] draws ... connections among economic policy, "shock and awe" warfare and the covert CIA-funded experiments in electroshock and sensory deprivation that shaped the torture manuals used today in Guantanamo Bay. [The author] shows how the deliberate use of the shock doctrine produced world-changing events, from Pinochet's coup in Chile in 1973 to the Tiananmen Square Massacre in 1989 and the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.-Dust jacket.   Read more... Abstract: [This book] explores the myth that the global free market triumphed democratically ... [It] traces the intellectual origins of disaster capitalism back to the University of Chicago's economics department under Milton Friedman, whose [...]influence is still felt around the world. [The book] draws ... connections among economic policy, "shock and awe" warfare and the covert CIA-funded experiments in electroshock and sensory deprivation that shaped the torture manuals used today in Guantanamo Bay. [The author] shows how the deliberate use of the shock doctrine produced world-changing events, from Pinochet's coup in Chile in 1973 to the Tiananmen Square Massacre in 1989 and the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.-Dust jacket