Before Naomi Klein wrote Shock Doctrine, there was Economic Shock Therapy:
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Before Naomi Klein wrote Shock Doctrine, there was Economic Shock Therapy:
From the blog Registan by Joshua Foust Opium Season, by Joel Hafvenstein
From the blog Registan by Joshua Foust Learning from PRTs
As a person who has worked in Central America and Iraq these are topics that I wrestle with. What's appropriate, acceptable, sustainable, and will be perceived as a hand up as opposed to hand out...
The IMF, in the 2009 World Economic Outlook, provides the following record of % changes in Iraq's GDP (page 195 of the pdf report):
The Economist/Economic Intelligence Unit provides the...
Newsweek’s 2006 analysis of Iraq’s Economy
“ Even so, there's a vibrancy at the grass roots that is invisible in most international coverage of Iraq. Partly it's the trickle-down effect. However...
Ken,
I always enjoy reading your posts, references, and reflecting upon your well argued point of view. I think that we can agree that the greatness of our constitution, nation, and way of life...
Ran across this: http://www.povertyinitiative.org/resources/resource_documents_pdf/Disaster_Capitalism.pdf
on John Robb's Global Guerrillas Blog ( http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/ )
It...