By Naomi Klein
In this groundbreaking replacement heritage of the main dominant ideology of our time, Milton Friedman's free-market financial revolution, Naomi Klein demanding situations the preferred delusion of this movement's peaceable international victory. From Chile in 1973 to Iraq this day, Klein indicates how Friedman and his fans have again and again harnessed bad shocks and violence to enforce their radical guidelines. As John grey wrote in The mum or dad, "There are only a few books that truly aid us comprehend the current. The surprise Doctrine is a kind of books."
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Academic research reveals the closed neoliberal circuits, including the branding of program and evaluation by neoliberal think tanks providing textbook material to teachers. Neoliberalism thus can be observed to be well and alive in the twenty-first century, despite such setbacks as the collapse of the Washington Consensus. The Postface by Phil Mirowski discusses some of the reasons for the social construction of neoliberal obscurity as evidenced in ongoing Wikipedia discussions that are nominally dedicated to clarifying the subject.