The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

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"in moments of crisis, people are willing to hand over a great deal of power to anyone who claims to have a magic cure—whether the crisis is a financial meltdown or, as the Bush administration would later show, a terrorist attack. When it comes to paying contractors, the sky is the limit; when it comes to financing the basic functions of the state, the coffers are empty. What we have been living for three decades is frontier capitalism, with the frontier constantly shifting location from cris"