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The bestselling author of No Logo shows how the global free market has exploited crises and shock for three decades, from Chile to Iraq
In her groundbreaking reporting over the past few years, Naomi Klein introduced the term disaster capitalism. Whether covering Baghdad after the U.S. occupation, Sri Lanka in the wake of the tsunami, or New Orleans post-Katrina, she witnessed something remarkably similar. People still reeling from catastrophe were being hit again, this time with economic shock treatment, losing their land and homes to rapid-fire corporate makeovers.
The Shock Doctrine retells the story of the most dominant ideology of our time, Milton Friedman s free market economic revolution. In contrast to the popular myth of this movement s peaceful global victory, Klein shows how it has exploited moments of shock and extreme violence in order to implement its economic policies in so many parts of the world from Latin America and Eastern Europe to South Africa, Russia, and Iraq.
At the core of disaster capitalism is the use of cataclysmic events to advance radical privatization combined with the privatization of the disaster response itself. Klein argues that by capitalizing on crises, created by nature or war, the disaster capitalism complex now exists as a booming new economy, and is the violent culmination of a radical economic project that has been incubating for fifty years.
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"Dishonest".......2007-10-23
The "Financial Times" reviewed this book and called it "dishonest". It basically makes connections which are not there. One example: blaming the Russian destruction of Grosny (Chechnya) on Milton Friedman, instead of on Russia. Another example, stating that the Hizbollah attempt to take over Lebanon is basically a revolt by the 'poor' against the neo-liberal world order. Constantly, Ms. Klein attempts to bang the square peg of reality (power politics, Islamic fundamentalist imperialism) into the round hole of leftwing theory. The FT basically accuses Klein of making all kinds of highly unlikely connections, which in reality, do not exist. They also state that the work is "deeply flawed".
Eye Opener.......2007-10-22
If you've been wondering why the rich are getting richer and you're going nowhere, this book will help explain why. Wonder why you are so insecure about your job; why the politicians keep pushing these free trade pacts even though everyone knows they only help corporations make more money and allow the corporations to exploit the world's populous by having them work for less and less; why New Orleans has been abandoned (at least the areas previously filled with ordinary people; why the times feel so cruel, harsh, and Dickensian? Are you still trying to figure out why after Osama Bin Laden attacked us, we invaded Iraq? You don't know why we have to cut the social spending in the Federal budget but increase the spending for the military/industrial complex and why so many ordinary americans are losing their federal jobs to private contractors? Read this book and find out why.
The real skinny behind "Shock and Awe".......2007-10-22
It always seemed strange to me that the more aid a poor country gets, the poorer they get. Read this book to understand why. Journalist Naomi Klein takes us behind the scenes to show us why the rich nations of the world, led by America, are able to use "disaster capitalism" to "shock" a poor nation into submission. And how these rich nations use "aid" (via the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank) as a means of coercion to bring entire economies to their knees.
And if these countries do not welcome the "aid" that these organizations give then, or if these countries do something that the rich don't like, then those poor countries are "shocked" into submission and thus weakening them into giving up their economies.
Consider what happened when Iran tried to nationalize their oil fields in 1951. Consider what happened when the Dominican Republic tried to take back their fruit industry from American ownership in the early 60s. And what happened when Chile tried to do the same in 1972. And consider how these countries were "shocked" into submission later.
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein gives a fuller understanding about what is happening in the world today.
Solid investigative journalism.......2007-10-22
Like Klein's previous tome, No Logo, this book is exhaustively researched, compellingly argued, and impressive in its breadth and depth. Right wing nutbags will call her a socialist, propagandist, and whatever other epithets they can conjure to scare their uneducated and heartless base, but this is simply a diversionary tactic. Klein's examination of economic shock tactics (and their physical cousins, ECT and torture) are so heavily documented and fact checked that anyone with human(e) emotions would find it difficult to undermine her assertions or deny their veracity.
This book is the very definition of good, solid reporting. To doubters, Klein's claims may seem far fetched, but she connects the dots in a way that the mainstream media just can't seem to do.
through the Looking Glass Darkly.......2007-10-21
It is easy to get te wrong impression of The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. The premise (a cabal of politicians, academics, multi-national businessmen, and researchers seek to remake the world in their own image for the fun of power, control and wealth)is dark. The author is a gorgeous eyeful. It would be easy to imagine this as another far-fetched ghost-written consipracy theory clammoring for acceptance.
Except that this work is 444 pages long with 70 pages of footnotes to validate its claims and as such it deserves to be seriously considered by any who are concerned with the declining standard of living and order in their world.
The scope of this work is impressive as it traces the current state of things back to the 60's CIA mind control experiments through the "regime changes" in places like Chile, Argentina, Poland, and South Africa, to the more recent debacles in Katrina afflicted New Orleans and Iraq.
To read Klein's work is like putting on a pair of corrective lens that allow the reader to make sense of so much of history of the past 40 years. This book deserves to be bought, read, and discussed among thoughtful people concerned about the future.
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"Capitalism is the most successful wealth-creating economic system the world has ever known," declares Robert Gilpin. Yet it has skeptics. "Individual nations and powerful groups within nations that believe the world economy functions unfairly and to their disadvantage, or who wish to change the system to benefit themselves to the detriment of others, are an ever-present threat to the stability of the system." The task, then, is to ensure its survival through wise leadership that provides fair rules governing trade, investment, and currency. At a time when the economies of the world appear more linked than ever, and the tug of even further internationalization feels irresistible, Gilpin says nothing is inevitable. The whole system must rest on secure political foundations--foundations that Gilpin argues have weakened since the end of the cold war. "Growing concern over economic globalization and increased competition have intensified the movement toward economic regionalism and the appeal of protectionism," he writes. The Challenge of Global Capitalism was actually completed before the World Trade Organization's disastrous 1999 meeting in Seattle; after watching the protests unfold there, even the most Pollyannaish observers must admit that Gilpin warns of a real threat. His book will appeal mainly to economists, but serious nonspecialists will also find its sober prose accessible. --John J. Miller
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Many individuals proclaim that global capitalism is here to stay. Unfettered markets, they argue, now drive the world, and all countries must adjust, no matter how painful this may be for some. Robert Gilpin, author of the widely acclaimed Political Economy of International Relations (Princeton, 1987), urges us, however, not to take an open and integrated global economy for granted. Rather, we must consider the political circumstances that have enabled global markets to function and the probability that these conditions will continue. Gilpin's new book amounts to a magisterial inquiry into all major aspects of the contemporary world political economy. Beginning with the 1989 end of the Cold War and the subsequent collapse of communism, it focuses on globalization and rapid technological change and covers a broad sweep of economic developments and political cultures. Gilpin demonstrates the fragility of a global and integrated economy and recommends what can be done to strengthen it.
The international community has another chance to solidify the global market economy that collapsed with the outbreak of World War I. Yet, writes Gilpin, the full implications of this historic development for international affairs are not yet clear. Will socialist economies make a successful transition to market-type economies? What role will a dynamic China play in the world economy? Will the United States continue to exercise leadership or gravitate toward self-centered policies? Gilpin explores such questions along with problems in the areas of trade liberalization, multinational corporations, and destabilizing financial flows. He also investigates the struggles of less developed countries and the spread of economic regionalism, particularly in Europe, North America, and Pacific Asia, which directly threatens an open world economy.
The author maintains that global capitalism and economic globalization have rested and must continue to rest on a secure political foundation. However, this foundation has eroded since the end of the Soviet threat. To ensure survival of the global economy, Gilpin concludes, the United States and other major powers must recommit themselves to working together to rebuild its weakened political foundations.
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The Challenge of Global Capitalism: The World Economy in the 21st Century.......2006-11-05
Come in time for my college class. Arrived in excellent condition --- new book. Great price below campus book store prices.
To Free Global Capitalism or Too Free?.......2000-09-23
The main benefit of this book is to provide an overview of international economic forms of cooperation in the 20th century. That overview is, however, flawed by simplifications that often distort rather than illuminate that historical view. The argument about what must be done next is incomplete and unsatisfying. This book is written for the reader who has some college-level training in economics, and is interested in the interaction between national politics and international economics.
The basic argument is that free markets create excesses which can only be eliminated by international intervention. Such interventions were frequent and reasonably effective during the period just prior to World War I and in the free world after World War II. Professor Gilpin argues that parochial American leadership since the end of the cold war has undermined the international political system for stabilizing the international economy. He calls for stronger American leadership in forging a better coalition with the European Union countries and Japan.
The central thesis of the book is sound in one area: Unrestrained capital flows can create distortions in a world in which everything else (businesses, people, and trade flows) are not nearly so unrestrained. The problem here is that these rapid capital flows out of a country primarily occur because of years of earlier abuses (as I describe in The Irresitible Growth Enterprise) such as speculative spending on infrastructure and investments that are not needed (as happened in several Southeast Asian countries prior to their currency crises in 1998).
Virtually every problem that Professor Gilpin warns against and wants to solve with international authority is really created by poor national economic policies. We would probably create sounder world economic growth if we focused on encouraging all nations to pursue sound lending, appropriate national borrowing, and constructive trade policies (our attention is usually focused on the last). Where governments are weak or corrupt, abuses will always develop and linger. My counterargument would be that strong democracies will almost always pursue reasonably sound economic policies. Solve that problem of governmental form and effectiveness of political process at the national level, and the world economy will be sound. If this counterargument is right, then we may need a second generation of informational efforts in favor of effective democracy, in the same way that one was needed during the cold war through Radio Free Europe and Voice of America.
At another level, much of what is described here as weaknesses and problems can be attributed to weak currencies. Again, informational efforts and research could help countries with weak currencies appreciate how to strenthen those currencies. Certainly, pegging to stronger currencies is proving to be effective in many cases. Pegging to a basket of stronger currencies might work even better. There could even be a role for pegging to sound economic policies to change expectations, as some South American countries have done.
Many of the worldwide risks today relate to the U.S. trade imbalance. In the same way that greater public awareness and an economic boom led to eliminating the U.S. budget deficits, the trade imbalance can be solved. Again, this is a national issue, not an international one. The weak savings rate in the U.S. can also be solved by changing the tax laws, again at a national level.
Basically, the argument I am making is that the markets are having problems because national politics are impinging too much on free markets. In that regard, the free market of ideas that is democracy can then adjust the national politics to achieve more healthy, free market results. The U.S. should lead the way by improving the savings rate and reducing the trade deficit. That would take many of the strains off of the world economy, and create the basis for another ten years of economic boom in the United States. Can our U.S. politicians get together and work on this after the November election? I certainly hope so.
Another area where Professor Gilpin is misfocused is in his concern about the growth of trading blocs like the EU and NAFTA. Actually, these blocs are creating freer markets within them and are an unavoidable precursor to creating the same level of freedom internationally with all countries. If there were three trading blocs in the world, they would simply merge into one at some point. That would be progress.
Complexity science tells us that having many countries pursuing their own ideas of economic prosperity will work better than having an internationally coordinated system. And the more intelligent, responsive, and focused those countries are, the better the whole system will work.
After you have finished reading this book, can you think of other places where we rely on precedent too much in our thinking rather than potential? If you find any of this happening in your own thinking, how can you learn to seek out better solutions rather than simply aping past solutions?
Good start for a basic understanding.......2000-05-22
This is a higly readable and extensive survey of the major IPE issues facing Americans and the rest of the world today. It successfully analyzes and challenges the economists' arguments about the primacy of economics, or even economic theory, over politics or political science. This is an excellent book for someone just beginning to educate themselves about the nature and state of the international economy. It's significantly broad, but also does an excellent job of explaining complex phenomena. However, I have a few caveats. First, it moves too quickly and soflty over the larger issues, specifically, whether globalization has been helpful or harmful to the world polity. I agree with a previous review that it overestimates the threat of EU protectionism. In fact, he overestimates the threat of protectionism entirely. The greatest threat to, or promise against, globalization is the rise of social protest movements across the globe, being channeled in new ways not seen before. Therefore, I would urge most people to read this book, but then pick up either a contrarian book, like Grieder's One World: Ready or Not, or Globalization by Sasskia Sassen. Avoid Friedman's The Lexus and the Olive Tree at all costs.
reasonable overview for graduate students.......2000-05-04
Prof. Gilpin has an excellent reputation in the field of IPE, International Political Economy, and I bought this book on that recommendation.
It gives a good overview of major developments in the globalization and globalization debate in the 90s, with political economy analysis and lots of references to economic analysis. I would recommend it for graduate students, but I must say i was a bit disappointed, not much new or inspirational there. I could read the book very quickly without ever really having to stop and think. Here i think it is only fair to reveal my own background, which is in international economic relations and history of EU integration. Some of his points on the nature and development of the European Union and the economics are frankly quite contestable, especially on the openness or closedness of the EU. The debate on 'Fortress Europe' is really out of date by now ever since it became clear that the Single European Act of 1987 and the '1992' project were not about closing the EU economy, quite the contrary. Do I detect an US bias here?
Yes, as prof. Gilpin points out, economists indeed disagree on many key issues. But you will find that strife also within IPE and political science and in any other social science discipline. So? It reflects the complexity of the issues rather than weakness of the discipline, i'd argue (but then, I would would I, as an economist...) A number of problems in globalization and the international financial system are presented as (relatively) new, but I'd argue that more often than not these problems were always there in history. Also, the point that regionalization threatens globalization is too strong as put there, and not necessarily correct and so clear-cut at all: many regional economic agreements were made in the course of the Uruguay Round trade negotiations at GATT/WTO out of frustration with the slow pace of negotiations and as a 'back-up' plan in case of UR failure. Hardly a threat to globalization which, in any case, throughout history never really progressed smoothly at all.
All that said, the book does do a solid job of pointing out some of the main issues and discussions and it will do well as a topical reference book.
Global Capitalism = American Corporate Imperialism.......2000-04-30
America began opening it's markets to the world in the 1970's. Since then, as the economy has grown steadily, most Americans have seen stagnant wages and the country has seen an increase in all types of inequality. The idea that the problems can be fixed presupposes a will to fix them. There is none. A palliative to this claptrap would be Chambers Johnson's book Blowback.
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Everyone knows what organized crime is. Each year dozens of feature films, hundreds of books, and thousands of news stories explain to an eager public that organized crime is what gangsters do. Closely knit, ethnically distinct, and ruthlessly efficient, these mafias control the drugs trade, people trafficking and other serious crimes. If only states would take the threat seriously and recognize the global nature of modern organized crime, the FBI's success against the Italian mafia could be replicated throughout the world. The wicked trade in addictive drugs could be brought to a halt.
The trouble is, as Woodiwiss demonstrates in shocking and surprising detail, what everyone knows about organized crime is pretty much completely wrong. In reality the most important figures in organized crime are employees of multinational companies, politicians and bureaucrats. Gangsters are certainly a problem, but much of their strength comes from attempts to prohibit the market for certain drugs. Even here they are minor players when compared with the intelligence and law enforcement agencies that selectively enforce prohibition and profit from it. Woodiwiss shows how respectable businessmen and revered statesmen have seized these opportunities in an orgy of fraud and illegal violence
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Ganster Review.......2006-07-31
Great read, thoughtful, informative well written and a must read for any one intrested in making the earth a better and less corrupt place to live in.
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This book provides an essential historical framework for understanding global business. The author shows how entrepreneurs built a global economy in the nineteenth century by creating firms that pursued resources and markets across borders. It demonstrates how firms shifted strategies as the first global economy disintegrated in the political and economic chaos between the two world wars, and how they have driven the creation of the contemporary global economy. Many of the issues of the global economy have been encountered in the past. This book reveals how entrepreneurs and managers met the political, ethical, cultural, and organizational challenges of operating across borders at different times and in different environments. The role of multinationals is placed within their wider political and economic context. There are chapters on the impact of multinationals, and on relations with governments. The focus on the shifting roles of firms and industries over time provides compelling evidence on the diversity and discontinuities of the globalization process. The book explores the history of multinationals across a wide spectrum of manufacturing, service and natural resource industries. By providing an accessible survey of the history of international business worldwide, this book will be key reading for students taking courses in International Business, Business History, and Entrepreneurship; and of interest to academics and researchers working in these areas.
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Capitalism and Democracy in the 21st Century: Proceedings of the International Joseph A. Schumpeter Society Conference, Vienna 1998 "Capitalism and Socialism in the 21st Century"
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The collected papers in this volume are all concerned either in a direct sense or in a more wider perspective with the work of Joseph A. Schumpeter. Looking at Schumpeter's work, his lasting influence on important areas of research can be identified. One of these areas is obviously Schumpeter's idea about the future capitalism, a second one the issue of innovation and its consequences for economic development. A third area is concerned with the political process and the role of political leadership. The collection of this volume is developed along these main lines, complemented by papers discussing the place of Schumpeter's work within the history of economic analysis.
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Corporate Capitalism in Contemporary South Asia (International Political Economy)
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Much of the analysis of the impact of globalization remains preoccupied with the state rather than the corporate sector. There has been relatively little detailed analysis of the role of firms, especially the large multi-national conglomerates that have come to dominate South Asia's industrial landscape. This volume examines the South Asian corporate economies in terms of their history and evolution, their modes of corporate governance, and their relationship to the broader political economy.
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On Globalization: Capitalism in the 21st Century
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Attempts to explain the radical reshaping of the realtionship between the economy and society over the last 20 years struggled against the inadequacy of the traditional tools posited on market streamlining and flexibility. Bruno Amoroso reconstructs the pattern connecting community, human needs, modes of production, institutions and markets. In the light of the unsustainable costs of a globalization of the three-quarters of the planet, he proposes an alternative approach founded upon a polycentric system of cooperation and solidarity--the only one capable of transforming capitalism in the 21st century.
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Political Economy and Global Capitalism: The 21st Century, Present and Future (Anthem Studies in Development and Globalization)
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What Is to Be Done?: Leninism, Anti-Leninist Marxism and the Question of Revolution Today
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You really ought to read this book.......2003-07-16
"What is to be done?" Indeed, this question resonates with us today more than ever, as the world sits gripped in a crisis now some 30 years old, a crisis which has finally over the last decade given rise to a renewal of communist theory and hope, grounded in the anti-capitalist movements from Chiapas to Brazil to Seattle to Genoa. This book argues that the new movements against globalization must in fact not be lulled back into the quagmire of Leninism, in whatever form, and that is must project a new anti-capitalism, but one grounded not in hopes of state power and vanguard parties, but in the self-activity, the emancipatory and revolutionary self-activity of the proletariat.
The book operates on three interrelated levels: a critique of Leninism/Bolshevism in relation to its historical practice under Lenin, a critique of Lenin's theoretical underpinnings, and a projection of a different understanding of "what is to be done".
The strength of the work lies in the moments where the focus is on the critique of Lenin's theorization of the fundamental problems of struggle and revolution, and on the projection of a different notion of class, struggle, revolution and communism. The book founders, however, in those essays which take up the historical practice of the Bolsheviks, too often presenting a caricature of Lenin's ideas and his relationship to the revolutionaries of the turn of the 20th century.
Section One focusses on the historical practice of Lenin's ideas in the and through the Bolshevik Party and counterposes the practices of the Left within social democracy to Lenin and the Bolsheviks. This more or less fails to satisfy, as it never grapples with either Lenin's ideas nor with the Bolsheviks' practice from January 1904 to February 1917. This does however make it easier to pose an already-existing anti-Leninist Left within Social Democrcy, since taking up the actual history would require expaining how Lenin and the Bolsheviks were themselves an essential component of this Left.
Section Two is more focussed on a fundamental critique of Lenin's notions of revolution, struggle, capital, and of Marx's own project.. This critiques Lenin's ideas as not merely inapplicable to today, but as pointing to a wholly different, bourgeois conception of revolution and crisis. On the one side, they posit Lenin's ideas: the state as an instrument to be smashed, seized, wielded; crisis as flowing from the competition between capitals; the Party as Subject of the revolution, as the real agent of historical forces; and revolution as a question of 'who controls what.' To this they counterpose the state as a moment of the capital-labor relation, as a mode of existence of capital, not as an instrument; crisis as flowing from class struggle; the proletariat as Subject of the revolution; and revolution as the transformation of all human social relations, not as a delayed effect achieved years after seizing state power, but as the very content of revoution itself.
Section Three is focussed more on problems of organization and how we understand our own activity. The essays critique the notion of 'using the state', of 'going through the institutions'. They also critique the idea that revolution is a conflict between two equivalent Subjects, two armies. Rather, a differetn activity is posed, one which is about anti-power, an anti-politics, rather than a politics of conquest.
All of the authors share a broadly class struggle-centric analysis and the possibility of a communist anti-politics which sees itself as the moving negation of the existing social relations, rather than as moving through the institutions of capital. This involves a fundamentally anti-sociological and anti-instrumental approach to class, state and crisis.
This is a very, very good book and should be read by anyone who wants to grapple with the real meaning of revolution.
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Title: Globalization and the human imagination.(Reflections)
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