| INTRODUCTION Blank Is Beautiful: Three Decades of Erasing and Remaking the World |
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| PART 1 Two Doctor Shocks: Research and Development |
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1. The Torture Lab: Ewen Cameron, the CIA and the Maniacal Quest to Erase and Remake the Human Mind |
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2. The Other Doctor Shock: Milton Friedman and the Search for a Laissez-Faire Laboratory |
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| PART 2 The First Test: Birth Pangs |
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3. States of Shock: The Bloody Birth of the Counterrevolution |
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4. Cleaning the Slate: Terror Does Its Work |
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5. "Entirely Unrelated": How an Ideology Was Cleansed of Its Crimes |
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| PART 3 Surviving Democracy: Bombs Made of Laws |
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6. Saved by a War: Thatcherism and Its Useful Enemies |
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7. The New Doctor Shock: Economic Warfare Replaces Dictatorship |
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8. Crisis Works: The Packaging of Shock Therapy |
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| PART 4 Lost in Transition: While We Wept, While We Trembled, While We Danced |
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9. Slamming the Door on History: A Crisis in Poland, a Massacre in China |
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10. Democracy Born in Chains: South Africa's Constricted Freedom |
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11. Bonfire of a Young Democracy: Russia Chooses "The Pinochet Option" |
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12. The Capitalist Id: Russia and the New Era of the Boor Market |
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13. Let It Burn: The Looting of Asia and "The Fall of a Second Berlin Wall" |
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| PART 5 Shocking Times: The Rise of the Disaster Capitalism Complex |
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14. Shock Therapy in the U.S.A.: The Homeland Security Bubble |
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15. A Corporatist State: Removing the Revolving Door, Putting in an Archway |
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| PART 6 Iraq, Full Circle: Overshock |
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16. Erasing Iraq: In Search of a "Model" for the Middle East |
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17. Ideological Blowback: A Very Capitalist Disaster |
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18. Full Circle: From Blank Slate to Scorched Earth |
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| PART 7 The Movable Green Zone: Buffer Zones and Blast Walls |
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19. Blanking the Beach: "The Second Tsunami" |
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20. Disaster Apartheid: A World of Green Zones and Red Zones |
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21. Losing the Peace Incentive: Israel as Warning |
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| CONCLUSION Shock Wears Off: The Rise of People's Reconstruction |
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| Notes |
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| Acknowledgments |
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| Index |
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