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The Asian Tigers were with the "third approach" and were doing better than their neighbors. Ten years after the Asian... [MORE] |
Bob |
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Hard to imagine you could write this review if you read the book carefully. No doubt Cowen skimmed the chapters... [MORE] |
dopefish |
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It's so obvious that this "economist" did not take an objective viewpoint when analyzing Klein's book. It's so skewed. It... |
Kirk |
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Crediting "free markets" for the growth of freedom and modernity is like crediting "religion" for women's liberation. Feudalism is the... [MORE] |
Uncle Milty |
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No doubt the reader of this review cannot deny the obvious and true arguement made by Cowen, Western economics has... [MORE] |
bill |
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Even if you can't balance a checkbook, Naomi's Klein's fast-paced, meticulously sourced history of free trade economics is clear. It's... [MORE] |
Peggy |
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To read Cowen's review one would think that Klein was advocating Stalinist economic policies as opposed to a return to... [MORE] |
Nick |
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Good review. I wonder if it is not that capitalism requires shock, but any radical institutional change requires a major... [MORE] |
Albar |
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Why is it that critiques of Klein's Shock Doctrine, avoid her good points on Iraq. It's probably because she is... [MORE] |
Christopher Hutton |
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The United States of America embarked upon a multi pronged "Cold War" after World War II. Part of that Cold... [MORE] |
Lawrence Turner |
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The notion that the U.S. just happened to be around when all of these corporatist coups took place is demonstrably... [MORE] |
noel |
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You mention that "New Zealand and Chile abandoned socialistic policies for freer markets because the former weren't working well and... [MORE] |
Burton Hodge |
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One man's polemic doesn't offset another's esp. when that other is a talented wordsmith, and also an energetic and attractive... [MORE] |
datadave |
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What you fail to realize in your assertion that Klein is indeed attacking the classical liberals, is that she isn't.... [MORE] |
Josh |
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1973 - violent overthrow of a democratically elected socialist goverment leading to the mass killings and literally unpeakable torture of... [MORE] |
Erik Bloom |
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". And when Alan Greenspan said during an interview that he fears the populist policies rising in South America -... [MORE] |
Cain Adamsson |
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This is a very interesting article. It can be used to point out certain relevant critiques in terms of Naomi's... [MORE] |
jan willem |
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Mr. Cowen appears unable to muster the strength to argue the facts that he accuses Klein of misrepresenting or oversimplifying.... [MORE] |
Douglas Storm |
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I don't think Mr Cowen has read the book with much care. He wouldn't need to 'presume' that Ms Klein... [MORE] |
Dick Wolff |
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I agree, the reviewer has very clearly not read this book. The Shock Doctrine is not a critique of capitalism... [MORE] |
Beth |
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The prevailing winds are blowing hard to the left. The will of the ignorant will not be denied. Whatever the... [MORE] |
Sammy Radpurtha |
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"The destruction of New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina expelled many poor black residents and allowed most of the city's public... [MORE] |
Bumper |
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I didn't think much of Klein's book either, but the link between free-market advocacy and and torture advocacy seems very... [MORE] |
mtraven |
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Cowen appears to believe that if anyone makes a claim about the distribution of resources, they must be held to... [MORE] |
Frank |
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Frank's observation (see post dated Oct 23, 2007) points to a fundmental econometric flaw. The difference in zero and the... [MORE] |
Glen |
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The Milton Freedman Katrina Reference is NOT out of 1962 but based on specific suggestions made by Freedman in an... [MORE] |
Joey Gilgamesh |
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