blogossauro (blogossauro.com):
… Sobre Naomi Klein, sua tese do “capitalismo de desastre” e as teorias conspiratórias sobre o livre mercado. …
Articles (politeia-dbase.blogspot.com):
… her view of American history from them. (...) Klein’s husband, Stephen Lewis, reinforce each other. Lewis heralds from a prominent Canadian Socialist Party background. (...) For a thorough and devastating critique of Klein, one must turn to areviewby Jonathan Chait, who is no kind of conservative. Chait explains that in Klein’s world the practitioners of free market capitalism are trying to implement their plan to create pro-corporate policies through “the imposition and exploitation of mass trauma.” …
Indistinct Union: Intelligent Sounding (Non)sense (indistinctunion.wordpress.com):
… not income (either up or down) which is why I tend to lean towards Hernando de Soto’s work--although in this (as in everything else I’ve seen the man on) he is a one-track pony which becomes very boring, very quickly. – Update I: It’sworth linking again to Jon Chait’sdefinitive takedown of the excessively Marxist Klein. Update II: The answer to the why the proletriat is that Marx’s vision is ultimately a secularized form of Jewish eschatology and the prophetic ethics (the cry of the poor) against the abuses of …
Josh Xiong | Neocon Blues (joshxiong.com):
… more regulation and a need for more taxes and more government programs. The financial crisis is about the former, and it is a debate about how we can make capitalist markets work better, and not how we can diminish the market altogether. Of-course,Naomi Klein …
Hidden History (hidhist.wordpress.com):
… been broken. In recent months, several articles and reports have come out claiming to debunk my thesis. The most prominent are a “background paper” published by The Cato Institute, extended into a full length book in Swedish (!), anda lengthy essayin The New Republic by senior editor Jonathan Chait. Several readers have written to asking me to respond to these attacks, if only to help them defend the book more effectively. I resisted at first (clinging to my summer vacation) but I appreciate the feedback and severa …
Ben Casnocha: A blog about entrepreneurship, ideas, current affairs, and intellectual life (ben.casnocha.com):
… sweeping generalizations, or humorless nitpicking that leave even agreeable readers feeling sympathetic for the person on the other end. If you want an example of a professional, thoughtful, detailed, and nonetheless devastating critique of a thesis,read Jon Chait's review …
Kate/A/blog (kateablog.blogspot.com):
… interest quickly from one "bestseller" on the list to the next and it takes a lot of blow and hard to keep your book front and center at the cash register. Klein addresses one such attack on The Shock Doctrine from Jonathan Chait in an article atThe New Republic, title Dead Left Lol, how appropriate. Klein claims she resisted responding to the "attacks" but now feels compelled to do so for her fans have spoken and request it. It seems some disagree with Klein's portrayal of Milton Friedman as a supporter …
Reflektioner (bjornaxen.wordpress.com):
… Nu har Naomi Klein besvarat kritiken från Johan Norberg (eller rättare sagt: Cato - hon benämner honom aldrig) ochJonathan Chaitvilkas kritik av boken var rätt så likartad trots deras ideologiska skillnader. Norberg har så klart lovat besvara kritiken (vilket han gör här ). Utan att gå in i bokens alla detaljer vill jag bara säga det Kleins försvar inte &# …
More or Less Bunk (moreorlessbunk.wordpress.com):
… When UD first showed me Jonathan Chait’s hostile review of Naomi Klein’s The Shock Doctrinein The New Republica few weeks ago, I bit my tongue. Heaven knows the intellectual history of free market conservatism is not my strong suit. It didn’t help that I hadn’t read Klein since it came out almost a year ago. Thank goodness Naomi Klein has now responded to that revi …
HOW TO FURNISH A ROOM (howtofurnisharoom.blogspot.com):
… But still Jonathan (Big Con) Chaittakes issuewith Naomi Klein's Shock Doctrine. "Like every conspiracy theory, Klein's account of the fate of the world finally lacks internal logic. She points to one instance of American soldiers dismembering Iraqi passenger planes, inflicting "$100 million worth …
Nonicoclolasos (nonicoclolasos.wordpress.com):
… kriser för att driva igenom en politik som få egentligen vill ha, har rönt stor uppmärksamhet (vilket jag har skrivit om här och här). Själv har jag inte läst den men kan konstatera att vissa finner den osaklig — se t.ex. recensioner avJonathan Chaitoch Tyler Cowen samt Johan Norbergs analys — medan andra hyllar den. Intressant nog återfinns två högst respektabla personer i hyllningskören: ekonomipristagaren Joseph Stiglitz och filosofen John Gray …
P e r ∙ C r u c e m ∙ a d ∙ L u c e m (cruciality.wordpress.com):
… by Michael A. Sells, and The Muslims of Bosnia-Herzegovina: Their Historic Development from the Middle Ages to the Dissolution of Yugoslavia by edited by Mark Pinson. Jonathan Chait offers a hard-hittingreviewof The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein. Jim Gordon concludes his series of reflections on an ‘emotionally demanding and theologically enjoyable encounter’ with Hans Küng …
Gulfstream – Beebo (beebo.org):
… http://www.tnr.com/story_print.html?id=69067f1c-d089-474b-a8a0-945d1deb420b …
The New Editor (www.theneweditor.com):
… Jonathan Chait reviews Naomi Klein's book, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, taking apart the anti-corporate, anti-globalization themes that run through Klein's arguments. Chait writes,in part: The Shock Doctrine has a single, uncomplicated explanation for everything that ails us. It identifies the fundamental driving force of the last three decades to be the worldwide spread of free-market absolutism as it was formulated by Milton Friedman …
Spot-On (www.spot-on.com):
… s important archeological sites - the ones that had been looted? Well, the looting was an urban myth... more She was the new Chomsky, the young woman to re-invent politics for a new generation. Then came 9/11...morePsych departments won't teach Freud, nor is Marx taught in econ, while Hegel hardly figures in philosophy. In the mall of education, they are now boutique thinkers... more Visit A&L Daily > …
kiti žaidimai - (kitizaidimai.lt):
… but in fact her influence is as considerable as her press clippings proclaim. Her achievement, and it is no small feat, has been to revive economicism--and more grandiosely, materialism--as the central locus of left-wing politics. read more atthe new republic …
kiti žaidimai - (www.kitizaidimai.lt):
… but in fact her influence is as considerable as her press clippings proclaim. Her achievement, and it is no small feat, has been to revive economicism--and more grandiosely, materialism--as the central locus of left-wing politics. read more atthe new republic …
Bawb the Revelator (bawbtherevelator.blogspot.com):
… http://www.tnr.com/story_print.html?id=69067f1c-d089-474b-a8a0-945d1deb420bsmackdown of Naomi Klein's equally Lefto Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. Chait beat me to this new "Axis of Evil" beat-down by three or four days. Today Time and the LA Times are whaling the hell outta Naomi for her over-simplified …
The Late Adopter (lateadopter.blogspot.com):
… mistake exposes the deeper flaw of her thesis. Friedman opposed the war because he was a libertarian, and libertarian conservatism is not the same thing as neoconservatism. Nor are the interests of corporations always, or even usually, served by war."Jonathan Chait reviews …