The Shock Doctrine
| Full title | The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism |
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| Author | Naomi Klein |
| Published | 2007 |
| Pages | 677 |
| Recommended | 5 times |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Naomi Klein’s argument that crises are the window in which unpopular economic programmes get enacted — contested in its particulars, and one of the most-cited frames for how policy actually moves. |
Where I heard about it
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Photographed in November 2015 (Books photo album)
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Spotted at Powell’s City of Books, Portland — December 2022 (Books photo album)
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@WillManidis’s thread — named in the replies to his question “what is the single best book you can read that will explain an entire industry?”, June 2025. Full set of replies: what is the single best book… (tweet).
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@SpencrGreenberg’s thread — named in the replies to his question “What non-fiction book taught you the most about how the world really works?”, June 2025. Full set of replies: A question for you — What non-fiction… (tweet).
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nathan shuherk (@schizophrenicreads) — on a BookTok reading list about US empire, policing and disaster capitalism.
Three separate crowds reached for it in answer to different questions, which is the signal worth acting on.
Connections
- what is the single best book… (tweet) — the thread this came out of; the full recovered list lives there.
- A question for you — What non-fiction… (tweet) — the thread this came out of; the full recovered list lives there.
- Geopolitics