‘The Shock Doctrine’ is about how the ideology of total free market capitalism was put into practice around the world. This book is a reappraisal of the last 40 years of history, and tells the story of how violent means were often used to impose economic reforms on the people of many countries. New harsh economic conditions: removing workers’ rights; deregulating big business; and privatising state industries, were forced on the populations of Chile and Argentina during the 1970’s. Similar economic reforms have also been inflicted on other countries after natural disasters, when big business takes the opportunity to impose its will on a society when the population is least able to resist.
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