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A comment on The Shock Doctrine.

Re:The Shock Doctrine by jpxw on Thursday July 09, 2020 @08:44AM (#23779561)
> In the book, Klein argues that neoliberal free market policies (as advocated by the economist Milton Friedman) have risen to prominence in some developed countries because of a deliberate strategy of "shock therapy".

I don’t think the author of this book understands the views of Milton Friedman very well.

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Re:The Shock Doctrine by clawedjird on Thursday July 09, 2020 @01:37PM (#23782763)
What makes you think that? I haven’t read the book, but the Wikipedia article didn’t really elaborate on its economic content.
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Re:The Shock Doctrine by eindiran on Friday July 10, 2020 @08:48PM (#23798357)
This covers a lot of the issues in question:

https://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/pubs/pdf/bp102.pdf

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