In this groundbreaking alternative history of the most dominant ideology of our time, Milton Friedman's free-market economic revolution, Naomi Klein challenges the popular myth of this movement's peaceful global victory. From Chile in 1973 to Iraq today, Klein shows how Friedman and his followers have repeatedly harnessed terrible shocks and violence to implement their radical policies. As John Gray wrote in The Guardian, "There are very few books that really help us understand the present.
It's hard to keep positive as I read and learn how a handful of unscrupulous opportunists keep us under the mud while smiling and sporting their white collars ...
Such a real book that the fact that is frightening didn't sink in for a good few chapters. This is how the world is run. Read it and open your eyed to what is really happening around us.