This is the view that any restraint placed on the free operation of the market – from fixing minimum wages to environmental standards to health and safety controls in the workplace – are by definition wrong and counterproductive. If you are concerned that the world seems to believe democracy = free markets – it is time to read this book.įor two decades it has been abundantly clear that the greatest danger facing the world is the ideology that likes to call itself Economic Rationalism but is better described as Radical Free Market Economics. If you had forgotten just how evil unconstrained capitalism is – it is time to read this book. Klein compares some psychological experiments (torture by any reasonable definition of the word) carried out in the 1950s in Canada (funded by the CIA off US soil so they could plausibly deny they were researching torture) in which patients were blasted back to virtually a blank slate by sensory depravation and electric shock treatment to US foreign policy in countries such as Chile in the 1970s and Iraq today. But I can’t bring myself to say anything remotely funny about this book. I’ve a preference for humour as a means of confronting the deeply disturbing. There is a part of me that would like to make this review a bit funny.
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