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Total Takedown of Naomi Klein
Back in October, I posed "Two Questions for Naomi Klein," in response to her then-new book Disaster Capitalism, which argues that "free market ideologues" have consciously created crises as opportunities to force their unpopular policies on unsuspecting populations, both in the US and elsewhere. Specifically, she sees Milton Friedman as the source of all of this evil.
My two questions were a drop in the bucket compared to the total and utter takedown of the book administered by Johan Norberg in a new Cato Policy Briefing entitled "The Klein Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Polemics."
I'm not going to snippet it as the whole thing deserves to be read as a masterful, well-footnoted, response to Klein and others like her. If you have friends who are talking about Klein's book, send them Norberg's piece.
- Johan Norberg on Mrs. Thatcher by Mark Brady (May 20, 2008 at 9:42 PM)
- Re: Johan Norberg on Mrs. Thatcher by Bogdan Enache (May 20, 2008 at 11:47 PM)
- Johan Norberg on Naomi Klein by Mark Brady (May 20, 2008 at 9:47 PM)
- Re: Johan Norberg on Naomi Klein by Steven Horwitz (May 20, 2008 at 10:13 PM)
- Re: Johan Norberg on Naomi Klein by Mark Brady (May 20, 2008 at 11:00 PM)
- Thanks by Keith Halderman (May 20, 2008 at 9:50 PM)
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