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by Bo102010
5426 days ago
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Yikes. I refer you to Tyler Cowen's review of Klein: http://www.nysun.com/arts/shock-jock/63867/ Some highlights: "Ms. Klein's rhetoric is ridiculous. For instance, she attaches import to the fact that the word 'tank' appears in the label 'think tank.'" "What the reader will find is a series of fabricated claims, such as the suggestion that Margaret Thatcher created the Falkland Islands crisis to crush the unions." "If nothing else, Ms. Klein's book provides an interesting litmus test as to who is willing to condemn its shoddy reasoning." |
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Have a look at The Economist's blog that did a round up of reviews of the Shock Doctrine:
http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2007/10/naomi_kl...
I remember reading 'No Logo' and wondering why on earth a book about how 'teh evil capitalists' exploit people would pick MS an example of an exploitative company. MS, afterall, has made thousands of millionaires out its employees. Then she goes on further to cite South Korea as an example of how terrible capitalism is because low skill production is moving elsewhere not realising that South Korea is one of the countries you do not mention if you want to talk about how capitalism is evil as it is a stunning success of wealth increase.
The Economist's own review of her earlier work that states:
"Ms Klein's harshest critics must allow that, for an angry adolescent, she writes rather well. It takes journalistic skill of a high order to write page after page of engaging blather, so totally devoid of substance. What a pity she has turned her talents as a writer to a cause that can only harm the people she claims to care most about. But perhaps it is just a phase."
is probably the sharpest criticism of all.