The Shock Doctrine

Naomi Klein argues that what happened in Iraq, and is part of a broader trend globally, is in many ways the opposite of economic and human development. Explain what she means, provide examples from Iraq, and argue EITHER in support of her analysis, or against her analysis. The argument presented by Naomi Klein in her work, “The Shock Doctrine” is that the privatization of the government in the form of disaster capitalism, as seen after the Invasion of Iraq, is counter to economic growth and human development.1 Disaster and crisis was used to swiftly implement the radical privatization that had been slowly creeping into government during the 90’s. This is mirrored dramatically by the War in Iraq and the events leading up to it. Despite being…

Ever since Europeans took to the seas, beginning in the early 16th century, in search of opportunities to better them, various techniques that used a form of shock and awe were implemented on the locals that the Europeans targeted. Popular examples are forced labor of native Americans by the Spanish up-to and including the genocide committed by King Leopold II solely for his personal gains in the Congo; all these unfortunate events in history share one thing in common, personal greed that arose…

The shock Doctrine is a documentary based on the book with the same title written by Naomi Klein. In this film is well portray the origin and evolution of neoliberalism, and the role of governments in the advances of financialization, privatization of public properties and cuts of social services such as education and health care. This theory was supported by Milton Friedman, who was an economist, popular for his researches on consumption, free market, and the monetary history. In the film,…

With the use of shocks, Klein argues that government officials and leaders decided the economic state of different countries. The shock doctrine was created by University of Chicago scholar Milton Friedman, who was collogues with Hayek. This doctrine was implemented in countries like Chile, Argentina, Iraq, and the States. There are three imporant steps to the shock doctrine and changing a whole government and ideology of a country or area. A basic overview of the shock doctrine can be seen in…

Disasters come natural in some cases and in other cases they do not, In Naomi Klein’s book The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism she argues about free market economic policies. As citizens are focused on dealing with disasters during a time of great misfortune, Naomi clearly states her thoughts on free market economic policies. Naomi’s argument throughout the entire book sums up the idea of an anti-capitalist movement. Being stunned by disaster, economic policies the government…

In the introduction to her book “Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism” (2007) Naomi Klein illustrates how governments take advantage of natural or man made disasters to introduce exploitive policies and other changes in country while its citizens are still in shock and have to deal with the crises at hand. I agree with Klein’s statement that countries often use Shock Therapy to deal with crises and in my essay I will specifically look at financial crises. The argument I use to support…

Before the start of the experiment a Slight shock of 45V is administered to the participant in order to show him what the Learner will be experiencing and to further portray the experiment as authentic (Milgram, 1963). However, the participant is not aware that this will be the only real shock in the experiment. The confederate will not be shocked because he is an actor in the situation (Milgram, 1963). He does act as if being shocked, however. In the Voice Feedback condition the Learner starts…

Our data cover sixteen major industrial sectors from nine countries in the Trans-Pacific region. We apply a factor-augmented vector autoregression (FAVAR) approach (Bernanke, Boivin, and Eliasz, 2005) to reduce the dimension of our data and to simulate the transmission of shocks from the Trans-Pacific region to the US. FAVAR has two advantages compared with traditional VAR. First, it can incorporate a broader set of information related to the unknown transmission mechanism by utilizing…

There would be a hole from the memory being erased, such as in the movie Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind when Clementine said, “Nothing makes any sense to me! NOTHING MAKES ANY SENSE!” This was tested when a scientist played a tone for a rat before it was shocked. On an episode from the scientific podcast Radiolab titled "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Rat" Jad Abumrad said, “The moment it hears the tone and feels the shock, inside its head, a bunch of neurons start to build. Whenever…

a hat to determine what role they would play in the study. However the drawings were rigged to infer that the true participants became the teacher and the accomplice was always the learner. Once the participant assumed their role the learner was taken into a room next door, and with the participant watching, he was then strapped to a chair with wired electrodes, which was connected to the shock generator in the next room with the teacher. Once the learner was attached instructions of the…