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    The book argues that free market policies promoted by Milton Friedman have gained prominence in some countries because leaders deliberately take advantage of crises to implement exploitative policies while citizens are distracted by disasters and upheavals. Some crises may even be artificially created to then leverage reforms that are normally unpopular. The strategy exploits disasters to push through controversial changes that citizens would resist during normal times.

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    The book argues that free market policies promoted by Milton Friedman have gained prominence in some countries because leaders deliberately take advantage of crises to implement exploitative policies while citizens are distracted by disasters and upheavals. Some crises may even be artificially created to then leverage reforms that are normally unpopular. The strategy exploits disasters to push through controversial changes that citizens would resist during normal times.

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    The book argues that free market policies promoted by Milton Friedman have gained prominence in some countries because leaders deliberately take advantage of crises to implement exploitative policies while citizens are distracted by disasters and upheavals. Some crises may even be artificially created to then leverage reforms that are normally unpopular. The strategy exploits disasters to push through controversial changes that citizens would resist during normal times.

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    The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism is a 2007 book by the Canadian author Naomi Klein, and

    is the basis of a 2009 documentary by the same name directed by Michael Winterbottom.[1] The book argues that the free market policies of Nobel Laureate Milton Friedman have risen to prominence in some countries because of a deliberate strategy of certain leaders to exploit crises by pushing through controversial, exploitative policies while citizens were too busy emotionally and physically reeling from disasters or upheavals to create an effective resistance. It is implied that some man-made crises, such as the Iraq war, may have been created with the intention of pushing through these unpopular reforms in their wake.

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