The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism — How Crisis Reorders Power
A disaster can destroy more than buildings. It can also weaken the institutions, communities, and democratic processes that determine what comes next.
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.
Using The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein as our lens, this investigation examines how collective trauma can create a compressed policy window for reorganizing economies and transferring public functions into private hands.
Klein argues that an economic program centered on privatization, deregulation, and cuts to public spending has…
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