The Shock Doctrine

Klein’s argument is that unpopular free-market programmes are imposed in the window after a catastrophe, while people are too disoriented to resist, and she traces the pattern from Pinochet’s Chile through post-Soviet Russia, post-tsunami Sri Lanka and post-Katrina New Orleans. She attributes the clearest statement of the method to Milton Friedman himself. Contested in its details and hard to unsee once read.