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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: In their interrogations, the CIA applied psychological shocks meant to remake the individual entirely.
Chapter 3: Free-market economists devised “economic shock therapy” to push harsh reforms during periods of crisis onto societies.
Chapter 4: In practice, economic shock therapy’s reforms are frequently paired with authoritarian state violence and repression.
Chapter 5: Economic shock therapy typically rewards the ultra-wealthy and multinationals, costing everyone else dearly in the process.
Chapter 6: Economic shock therapy demands the eradication and quieting of political and ideological dissidents.
Chapter 7: During the 1970s, economic shock therapy produced impoverished, downtrodden, and profoundly terrified populations worldwide.
Chapter 8: In the 1980s, Western powers learned that withholding aid compelled struggling nations to open their markets to foreign competition.
Chapter 9: By privatizing Iraq’s military and reconstruction, the United States enriched major corporations enormously with lucrative contracts abroad.
Description
The Shock Doctrine (2008) offers insights into the dark world of disaster capitalism, in which crises serve as an instrument to undo the trade regulations and national protections which prevent international megacorporations from totally exploiting poorer countries. Rooted in the findings of the CIA-sponsored "MKUltra" psychological torture experiments, economic shock treatment has left behind a legacy of blood and destruction since it first began to be taken seriously in the 1970s.
Who Should Listen
- Anyone interested in economics
- Anyone interested in foreign policy
- Anyone interested in history