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No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump’s Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need by Naomi Klein

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Kleptocracy Free-For-All Baghdad gang of contractors descended on New Orleans Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2007), 506. The company FEMA paid $5.2 million to build a base camp for emergency workers Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2007), 495. FEMA paid Shaw $175 per square foot to install blue tarps on damaged roofs, even though tarps themselves provided by the government… Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2007), 496.

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John Kerry: drought was a factor in tensions in Syria US Department of State, “Remarks at the Milan Expo 2015,” press release, October 17, 2015, accessed from https://groups.google.com/​forum/​#!topic/​wanabidii/​Xp6wYBlQIOg. Eyal Weizman: “astounding coincidence” Naomi Klein, “Let Them Drown,” London Review of Books 38, no. 11 (June 2, 2016), https://www.lrb.co.uk/​v38/​n11/​naomi-klein/​let-them-drown. Eyal Weizman and Fazal Sheikh, The Conflict Shoreline: Colonialism as Climate Change in the Negev Desert (Göttingen, Germany: Steidl, 2015), 99. Center for Naval Analyses: “The Middle East has always been associated with two natural resources…” CNA Corporation, National Security and the Threat of Climate Change (Arlington, VA: Center for Naval Analyses, 2007), accessed from https://www.scribd.com/​document/​4097167/​National-Security-the-Threat-of-Climate-Change.

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CHAPTER 10 When the Shock Doctrine Backfires Resistance, Memory, and the Limits to No Mekasi Camp Horinek: “I want to say thank you…” Alleen Brown, “Donald Trump Rewards Fossil Fuel Industry by Signing Climate Denial Executive Order,” TheIntercept.com, March 28, 2017, https://theintercept.com/​2017/​03/​28/​donald-trump-rewards-fossil-fuel-industry-by-signing-climate-denial-executive-order/; and author’s personal communication with Alleen Brown, n.d. When Argentina Said No Time magazine: Argentina’s economy a “miracle” Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2007), 209. Fernando de la Rúa “groups that are enemies of order…” Naomi Klein, “Out of the Ordinary,” Guardian, January 25, 2003, https://www.theguardian.com/​world/​2003/​jan/​25/​argentina.weekend7. Argentina: thirty-day state of siege Clifford Krauss, “Reeling from Riots, Argentina Declares a State of Siege,” New York Times, December 20, 2001, http://www.nytimes.com/​2001/​12/​20/​world/​reeling-from-riots-argentina-declares-a-state-of-siege.html.

Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein

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She started taking photographs of random clouds in upstate New York and London, prompting the environmental magazine Grist to declare, in 2018, that “Wolf is a cloud truther.” I always know when she has been busy—because my online mentions fill up instantly. With denunciations and excommunication (“I can’t believe I used to respect Naomi Klein. WTF has happened to her??”). And with glib expressions of sympathy (“The real victim in all this here is Naomi Klein” and “Thoughts and prayers to Naomi Klein”). How much does this identity merger happen? Enough that there is a viral poem, first posted in October 2019, that invariably shows up in these moments, and that been shared many thousands of times: If the Naomi be Klein you’re doing just fine If the Naomi be Wolf Oh, buddy.

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“They are sterilizing an entire generation”: Yew, tweet, May 23, 2021. “one foot in the grave”: Yew, tweet, May 23, 2021. “autocratic tyrants”: “Naomi Wolf Sounds Alarm at Growing Power of ‘Autocratic Tyrants,’” Tucker Carlson Tonight, Fox News, February 22, 2021. “This is your periodic reminder”: Naomi Klein @NaomiAKlein, tweet, February 23, 2021, Twitter. “Still here, sadly”: Naomi Klein @NaomiAKlein, tweet, June 5, 2021, Twitter. “a much-hyped medical crisis”: Naomi Wolf, 2021 introduction to The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot (White River Junction, Vt.: Chelsea Green Publishing, 2021), xv. the “guise” of a medical emergency: “Naomi Wolf Sounds Alarm at Growing Power of ‘Autocratic Tyrants.’”

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Wilcken, Patrick Wilde, Oscar, The Picture of Dorian Gray wildfires “William Wilson” (Poe) Willis, Mikki Wilson, Chip Winfrey, Oprah Wing, Lorna Winthrop, John “woke” ideology; capitalism and; in school curricula Wolf, Leonard Women, Race & Class (Davis) Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom (Northrup) Women’s Warrior Song words working class World and Africa, The (Du Bois) World Economic Forum (WEF) World Health Organization (WHO) World Trade Organization World War I World War II “Writing About Jews” (Roth) Wuhan Yarvin, Curtis Yeltsin, Boris Yeoh, Michelle yoga yoga apparel Yoon, Suk-yeol You Have Not Yet Been Defeated (Abd el-Fattah) Young Karl Marx, The Youngkin, Glenn YouTube; Wolf’s “slavery forever” video on Zionism Žižek, Slavoj zozobra Zuboff, Shoshana Zuckerberg, Mark Also by Naomi Klein No Logo Fences and Windows The Shock Doctrine This Changes Everything No Is Not Enough The Battle for Paradise On Fire How to Change Everything A Note About the Author Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist and documentary filmmaker, and a New York Times bestselling author of books including No Logo, The Shock Doctrine, This Changes Everything, No Is Not Enough, and On Fire, which have been translated into more than thirty-five languages.

Consumed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole by Benjamin R. Barber

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Brands are experiences, and brand experiences need to be “staged.”40 Good Morning America’s former producer Shelley Ross actually had a script for her stars that cast anchor Charles Gibson as “Dad,” and hence “Patriarch,” with Diane Sawyer as “the lover of all culture” and newsreader Robin Roberts as “the best friend.”41 Naomi Klein has reported in depth in her No Logo on what she calls these “‘brand vision’ epiphanies,” which she found under every marketing stone she turned over. Polaroid is no longer a camera but a “social lubricant,” IBM sells “business solutions” not computers, Swatch markets time rather than watches, and Diesel Jeans is a lifestyle “movement.” The idea is to embody a set of values, to deploy “attribute brands”—not to actually manufacture something, but, as Naomi Klein insists Tommy Hilfiger is doing, to be “in the business of signing his name.”42 Many brands today revolve around celebrities and personalities, from those like Michael Jordan and Larry King who are the brand, to those like Richard Branson (Virgin) and Phil Knight (Nike) and Bill Gates (Microsoft) who by turning a product into a celebrity reputation have, to a considerable degree, Martha Stewart style, become the brand.

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If their countries and tribes and religions can be made to appear as secondary to their global market tastes and youth-branded appetites as children, capitalism need not be impeded by pluralism. A global consumer economy in a world of differentiated cultures depends on the ability to sell uniform goods. According to Naomi Klein, the question is quite precisely: “What is the best way to sell identical products across multiple borders? What voice should advertisers use to address the whole world at once? How can one company accommodate cultural difference while still remaining internally coherent?”49 The business guru James U.

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The object is to displace traditional ascriptive identities associated with place and birth that are divisive and hence unsuited to the global marketplace—a twenty-something Turkish Kurd who is a Muslim—through contrived brand identities without borders: a twenty-something MTV-watching Pepsi drinker. Naomi Klein was one of the first to confront branding critically, observing in the mid-1990s that “what most global ad campaigns are still selling most aggressively is the idea of the global teen market—a kaleidoscope of multi-ethnic faces blending into one another: Rasta braid, pink hair, henna hand painting, piercing and tattoos, a few national flags, flashes of foreign street signs, Cantonese and Arabic lettering and a sprinkling of English words, all over the layered samplings of electronic music.”

Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires by Douglas Rushkoff

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Douglas, “Gamification to Prevent Climate Change: A Review of Games and Apps for Sustainability,” Current Opinion in Psychology 41 (December 1, 2021): 89–94, https:// doi .org /10 .31219 /osf .io /3c9zj. 107   Evgeny Morozov points out : Evgeny Morozov, To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism (New York: PublicAffairs, 2013). 107   Hook Model : Nir Eyal, Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products (New York: Portfolio, 2014). 108   Red flags abound : Andrea Valdez, “This Big Facebook Critic Fears Tech’s Business Model,” Wired , March 10, 2019, https:// www .wired .com /story /this -big -facebook -critic -fears -techs -business -model /. 108   “as big an existential threat” : The Social Dilemma, directed by Jeff Orlowski (Exposure Labs, The Space Program, Agent Pictures, 2020). 109   “They’re willing to see” : Douglas Rushkoff, interview with Naomi Klein, Team Human podcast, August 4, 2021, https:// www .teamhuman .fm /episodes /naomi -klein. Chapter 9: Visions from Burning Man 112   Shark Tank : A reality show where entrepreneurs pitch billionaires including Mark Cuban and Barbara Corcoran for investment. 113   “It’s well documented” : Nellie Bowles, “ ‘Burning Man for the 1%’: The Des ert Party for the Tech Elite, with Eric Schmidt in a Top Hat,” Guardian , May 2, 2016, https:// www .theguardian .com /business /2016 /may /02 /further -future -festival -burning -man -tech -elite -eric -schmidt. 113   “It’s important” : Bowles, “ ‘Burning Man for the 1%.’ ” 118   funneling capital from Colombia : Keith Larsen, “Investors Accuse Prodigy Network of Fraud at Troubled Park Ave Development,” Real Deal, September 24, 2020, https:// therealdeal .com /2020 /09 /24 /investors -accuse -prodigy -network -of -fraud -at -troubled -park -ave -development /. 118   charges of fraud : Global Property and Asset Management Inc., “Panic at Prodigy,” October 3, 2019, https:// globalpropertyinc .com /2019 /10 /03 /panic -at -prodigy /. 118   “game of life” : “Akasha—The Game of Life,” https:// www .playakasha .com, accessed August 10, 2021. 119   “exponential technologies … moonshots” : Singularity University, “An Exponential Primer,” https:// su .org /concepts /, accessed August 10, 2021. 119   “entrepreneurial leaders … planetary scale” : Singularity University, “Singularity University,” https:// su .org /, accessed August 10, 2021. 120   MacArthur Foundation : MacArthur Foundation, “100 & Change,” https:// www .macfound .org /programs /100change /. 122   She hated Robert Moses’s : Jane Jacobs, Systems of Survival: A Dialogue on the Moral Foundations of Commerce and Politics (New York: Random House, 1992). 123   new urbanism now amounts to : Rushkoff, Life Inc.: How Corporatism Conquered the World, and How We Can Take It Back (New York: Random House, 2009), 74–83. 124   Rutt has applied : Jim Rutt, “A Journey to Game B,” Medium , January 14, 2020, https:// medium .com /@memetic007 /a -journey -to -gameb -4fb13772bcf3. 125   President Eisenhower : Center for the Study of Digital Life, http:// digitallife .center /, accessed August 10, 2021. 125   “Yet in holding scientific” : Dwight D.

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The group painfully lacks a structural critique of the market economy. Most of them appeared in the Netflix documentary The Social Dilemma , which was widely acclaimed for its startling admissions by members of the tech industry, as well as its fictional movie-within-the-movie about a family devastated by its use of social media. Naomi Klein told me that she screened the movie to her undergraduate students at Rutgers. Watching the Center’s leaders opine about the dangers of platforms, the students said, “They’re willing to see everything except capitalism.” Instead, McNamee and others blame B. J. Fogg for teaching them such techniques, and share how they wouldn’t let their own kids use the apps they’ve built.

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For just as the Alliance for the New Humanity sought to combat media manipulation with more propaganda and solve the climate crisis by wasting more jet fuel, today’s leading efforts at correcting the ills of capitalism, industry, and technology seek to do so with more capitalism, industry, and technology. In her groundbreaking book The Shock Doctrine , Naomi Klein exposed the way oppressive governments, corporations, and wealthy individuals intentionally foment or seize upon natural and military disasters to establish neoliberal policies, entrench particular business interests, and build gated communities. So whether it’s Halliburton handling the logistics for Iraq’s postwar security and infrastructure, surveillance tech companies like Palantir winning contracts after 9/11, or the prison industry gaining business whenever there’s an increase in poverty and crime, those who profit off crises are incentivized to perpetuate them as well as the system that keeps this feedback loop in place.

Cities Under Siege: The New Military Urbanism by Stephen Graham

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Henriksen , The Israeli Approach to Irregular Warfare, 40. 95 Imri Tov, ‘Economy in a Prolonged Conflict: Israel 2000–2003’, Strategic Assessment 6: 1, 2003, available at www.tau.ac.il. 96 USA Today, ‘US Military Employs Israeli Technology in Iraq War’, 24 March 2003. 97 Bernel Goldberg, ‘Introduction to WTCTA Breakfast Series: Israeli Investment and Trade Opportunities with the Pacific Northwest’, 4 May 2007, Tacoma, WA. 98 Naomi Klein, ‘Laboratory for a Fortressed World’, The Nation, 14 June 2007. 99 Donald Snyder, ‘Israel’s Technology Creates an Investment Goliath’, Fox Business. com, 16 January 2008. 100 Goldberg, ‘Israeli Investment and Trade Opportunities with the Pacific Northwest’. 101 Fairfax County Ecibiomic Development Authority, ‘Special Event: United States-Israel HLS Technologies Conference and B2B (Business to Business) Meetings between Israeli and US Companies’, 16–18 January 2007, available at www.fairfaxcountyeda.org. 102 Naomi Klein, ‘Laboratory for a Fortressed World’. 103 Israel High-Tech Investment Report, February 2008, available at www.ishitech.co.il. 104 Klein, ‘Laboratory for a Fortressed World’. 105 Jeffrey Larsen and Tasha Pravecek, ‘Comparative US-Israeli Homeland Security’, The Counterproliferation Papers, Future Warfare Series no. 34, Air University, Maxwell Air Force Base, AL: United States Air Force Counterproliferation Center. 106 See Israeli Export and Economic Cooperation Institute, undated, at www.export.gov.il. 107 Klein, ‘Laboratory for a Fortressed World’. 108 Rafael Corporation, ‘Anti-Terror Homeland Security Solutions’, brochure, undated, available at www.rafael.co.il. 109 Ali Kravitz, ‘US Homeland Security Market Beckons’, Jerusalem Post, 18 January 2007. 110 James Carafano, Jonah Czerwinski, and Richard Weitz, ‘Homeland Security Technology, Global Partnerships, and Winning the Long War’, The Heritage Foundation, 5 October 2006, available at www.heritage.org. 111 Consuella Pockett, ‘The United States and Israeli Homeland Security: A Comparative Analysis of Emergency Preparedness Efforts’, Counterproliferation Papers Future Warfare Series no. 33, Air University, Maxwell Air Force Base, AL: United States Air Force Counterproliferation Center, 150. 112 Ibid., 147. 113 State of Israel Ministry of Public Security, ‘Israel-USA Homeland Security Cooperation’, undated, available at www.mops.gov.il. 114 Joe Charlaff, ‘Joint Israeli-American Initiative to Streamline Homeland Security Management’, Israel 21c, 28 November 2004, available at www.usistf.org. 115 Fairfax County Economic Development Authority conference. 116 Ali Kravitz, ‘US Homeland Security Market Beckons’. 117 Defensoft.com press release. 118 Fairfax County Economic Development Authority conference. 119 Laura Goldman, ‘Israeli Technology to Keep US Borders Safe’, Israel21c.org, 15 Oct 2006. 120 Irreversible Consequences: Racial Profiling and Lethal Force in the ‘War on Terror’, briefing paper, New York University School of Law, Center for Human Rights and Global Justice, 2006, 5. 121 Ibid., 13. 122 Nick Vaughan-Williams, ‘The Shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes: New Border Politics?’

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Such states of exception are declared not only to constitute the geographies of permanent violence that sustain the dominant economy but also to create what Achille Mbembe calls ‘death worlds’ – spaces such as Palestine, where vast populations are forced to exist as the living dead.92 In this way, states of emergency support broader geographies of accumulation through dispossession, which, while as old as colonialism, prove especially useful for neoliberal globalization. Here we confront the complex political economies of the new military urbanism and their central integration into what Naomi Klein has diagnosed as the tendency within contemporary neoliberal capitalism to engineer and/or to profit from catastrophic ‘natural’ or political-economic shocks.93 At issue is the character of what could be called the ‘new state spaces’ of war and violence, and their relation to political violence and contemporary geographies of dispossession.94 Citing the systematic Israeli bulldozing of homes and towns in Palestine, the similar erasure of Fallujah and other loci of Iraqi resistance, and the widespread erasure of informal settlements across the globe as city authorities entrepreneurially reorganize urban spaces, Kanishka Goonewardena and Stefan Kipfer point to ‘an ominously normalised reality experienced by the “damned of the earth” after the “end of history”’.

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New York: Routledge, 2003. 74 Simon Dalby ‘A Critical Geopolitics of Global Governance’, International Studies Association. 75 See Matt Hidek, ‘Networked Security in the City: A Call to Action for Planners’, Planners Network, 2007; Katja Franko, Analysing a World in Motion: Global Flows Meet ‘‘Criminology of the Other’’’, Theoretical Criminology 1: 2, 2007, 283–303 76 Amy Kaplan, ‘Homeland Insecurities: Reflections on Language and Space’, Radical History Review 85, 2003, 82–93. 77 Ibid. 78 Ibid. 79 Paul Gilroy, ‘‘Where Ignorant Armies Clash by Night’’: Homogeneous community and the planetary aspect’, International Journal of Cultural Studies 6: 3, 2003, 266. 80 Ibid, 261. 81 Lorenzo Veracini, ‘Colonialism Brought Home: On the Colonialization of the Metropolitan Space’, Borderlands 4: 1, 2005. 82 Sally Howell and Andrew Shryock, ‘Cracking Down on Diaspora: Arab Detroit and America’s ‘‘War on Terror’’’, Anthropological Quarterly 76:3, 2003, 443–62. 83 Jennifer Hyndman, ‘Beyond Either/Or: A Feminist Analysis of September 11th, ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies, February 2006. 84 Tim Watson, ‘Introduction: Critical Infrastructures After 9/11’, Postcolonial Studies 6, 109–11. 85 Ibid. 86 Allen Feldman, ‘Securocratic Wars of Public Safety’, 330–50. 87 Tony Blair, statement to the Press Association, 7 July 2005, quoted in Angharad Closs-Stephens, ‘7 million Londoners, 1 London’: National and Urban Ideas of Community in the Aftermath of the 7th July Bombings’, Alternatives 32: 2, 2007, 155–76. 88 Close-Stephens, ‘7 Million Londoners, 1 London’. 89 Paul Gilroy, ‘Multiculture in Times of War: An Inaugural Lecture Given at the London School of Economics’, Critical Quarterly 48:4, 29. 90 Ibid. 91 John Gray, ‘A Shattering Moment in America’s Fall from Power’, Observer, 28 October 2008. 92 Achille Mbembe, ‘Necropolitics’ Public Culture 15: 1, 2003, 11–40. 93 Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, London: Allen Lane, 2007. 94 The term ‘new state spaces’ comes from the pioneering book of that title by Neil Brenner, New State Spaces: Urban Governance and the Rescaling of Statehood, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. 95 Goonewardena and Kipfer, ‘Postcolonial Urbicide’. 96 See Chapter 9 and also Stephen Graham, ‘Switching Cities Off: Urban Infrastructure and US Air Power’, City 9: 2, 2005. 97 Kipfer and Goonewardena ‘Colonization and the New Imperialism’. 98 UN HABITAT, State of the World Cities 2006/7, Nairobi: United Nations, xi. 99 Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth, New York: Grove, 2004. 100 Goonewardena and Kipfer, ‘Postcolonial Urbicide’, 28. 101 See Chapter 11. 102 Eyal Weizman, Hollow Land, London: Verso, 2007. 103 Eyal Weizman, ‘Lethal Theory’, LOG Magazine April 2005, 74. 104 Goonewardena and Kipfer, ‘Postcolonial Urbicide’, 28. 105 Ibid., 29. 106 ‘Predatory planning’ can be defined as ‘the intended process of dispossession through aggressive, global-powered planning processes and use of multiple redevelopment tactics (building blocks), in the wake of existing trauma.

Meltdown: How Greed and Corruption Shattered Our Financial System and How We Can Recover by Katrina Vanden Heuvel, William Greider

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Jackson 253 America Needs a New New Deal by Katrina vanden Heuvel and Eric Schlosser 255 What Do We Want? An Emergency Town Hall Featuring William Greider, Francis Fox Piven, Doug Henwood, Arun Gupta and Naomi Klein. Moderated by Christopher Hayes 260 The Global Perspective by Will Hutton 270 How to End the Recession by Robert Pollin 287 In Praise of a Rocky Transition by Naomi Klein 297 Acknowledgments 301 List of Contributors 303 Preface The year 2008 will live in infamy in the annals of American economic history. As mass foreclosures, bank failures and multibillion-dollar government bail-outs rocked the country, the media scrambled to stay on top of the big story of the moment: how the collapsing U.S. financial sector was threatening to take the rest of the economy down with it.

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by Jeff Faux 166 Part Three: The Crisis Hits The Panic of 2008 by Editors of The Nation 177 Bridge Loan to Nowhere by Thomas Ferguson and Robert Johnson 179 Crisis of a Gilded Age by Doug Henwood 188 Henry Paulson’s Shell Game by Joseph E. Stiglitiz 191 View from Asia by Walden Bello 196 Born-Again Democracy by William Greider 199 The Suicide Solution by Barbara Ehrenreich 207 The Great Depression II by Nicholas von Hoffman 210 We’re All Minskyites Now by Robert Pollin 213 The Bailout: Bush’s Final Pillage by Naomi Klein 217 Part Four: The Road to Recovery How to Fix Our Broken Economy by Jeffrey Madrick 225 Ending Plutocracy: A 12-Step Program by Sarah Anderson and Sam Pizzigati 234 Trust but Verify by James K. Galbraith and William K. Black 244 King George and Comrade Paulson by Ralph Nader 247 A Big Government Bailout by Howard Zinn 249 Water the Roots by Rev.

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Moderated by Nation Washington editor Christopher Hayes, the panel featured national correspondent William Greider, famed author of the classic book on the Fed, Secrets of the Temple; Frances Fox Piven, longtime poor people’s activist and author of many books, including The Breaking of the American Social Compact; contributing editor Doug Henwood, author of Wall Street; Arun Gupta, activist and editor of the Indypendent newspaper; and columnist Naomi Klein, author of the bestseller, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. Following is an edited transcript of their discussion. Chris Hayes: There are a lot of technical questions about this crisis that I don’t think we’re going to be able to resolve tonight: what’s a credit default swap and how does it work, for example.

The Capitalist Manifesto by Johan Norberg

AltaVista, anti-communist, barriers to entry, Berlin Wall, Bernie Sanders, Big Tech, Boris Johnson, business climate, business cycle, capital controls, Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty, carbon footprint, carbon tax, Charles Babbage, computer age, coronavirus, COVID-19, creative destruction, crony capitalism, data is not the new oil, data is the new oil, David Graeber, DeepMind, degrowth, deindustrialization, Deng Xiaoping, digital map, disinformation, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, energy transition, Erik Brynjolfsson, export processing zone, failed state, Filter Bubble, gig economy, Gini coefficient, global supply chain, Google Glasses, Greta Thunberg, Gunnar Myrdal, Hans Rosling, Hernando de Soto, Howard Zinn, income inequality, independent contractor, index fund, Indoor air pollution, industrial robot, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), invention of the printing press, invisible hand, Jeff Bezos, Jeremy Corbyn, job automation, job satisfaction, Joseph Schumpeter, land reform, liberal capitalism, lockdown, low cost airline, low interest rates, low skilled workers, Lyft, manufacturing employment, Mark Zuckerberg, means of production, meta-analysis, Minecraft, multiplanetary species, Naomi Klein, Neal Stephenson, Nelson Mandela, Network effects, open economy, passive income, Paul Graham, Paul Samuelson, payday loans, planned obsolescence, precariat, profit motive, Ralph Nader, RAND corporation, rent control, rewilding, ride hailing / ride sharing, Ronald Coase, Rosa Parks, Salesforce, Sam Bankman-Fried, Shenzhen was a fishing village, Silicon Valley, Simon Kuznets, Snapchat, social distancing, social intelligence, South China Sea, Stephen Fry, Steve Jobs, tech billionaire, The Spirit Level, The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, TikTok, Tim Cook: Apple, total factor productivity, trade liberalization, transatlantic slave trade, Tyler Cowen, Uber and Lyft, uber lyft, ultimatum game, Virgin Galactic, Washington Consensus, working-age population, World Values Survey, X Prize, you are the product, zero-sum game

The proportion of the world population receiving basic education has skyrocketed and the illiteracy rates have almost halved: from 25.7 per cent to 13.5 per cent. In the age group 15–24, illiteracy is now just over 8 per cent. Between 2000 and 2020, child labour in the age group 5–17 decreased globally from 16 to just under 10 per cent.9 Global Progress: 1990–202010 The three decades after 1990 – when capitalism, according to Naomi Klein, enveloped the planet in its ‘most savage form’ – have seen greater improvements in human living conditions than the three millennia before that combined. It has also been three difficult decades, full of wars, crises and injustices. I am not saying that the era has been unequivocally good, only that it has been better than any other era humanity has experienced.

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Bernie Sanders said that the American dream was more alive in Venezuela than in the US. Labour’s Jeremy Corbyn praised Chávez for showing that ‘the poor matter and wealth can be shared’. Oxfam called Venezuela ‘Latin America’s inequality success story’. In an open letter to ‘Dear President Chávez’, luminaries of the Left such as Jesse Jackson, Naomi Klein, Howard Zinn and others state that they ‘see Venezuela not only as a model democracy but also as a model of how a country’s oil wealth can be used to benefit all of its people.’36 On paper, that $1,000 billion was enough to make every extremely poor individual in Venezuela a millionaire. But still, it is not much money if you do not invest it productively and if you destroy the ability to create new wealth with nationalization and price controls.

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Although the risks of their occurrence may be small, the consequences would be so enormous that it is worth investing quite a bit to insure ourselves against such an outcome. Reducing global warming and its consequences will require major changes. But which ones? A common line of argument is that the problem is the whole idea of an ever-growing economy with ever more planes and trucks ferrying people and goods across the continents around the clock. Leftists like Naomi Klein claim this is the inevitable result of global capitalism and ever-increasing production. But even a climate activist like Greta Thunberg complains that world leaders only talk about money and ‘some technical solutions’.2 This alludes to the widespread perception that we cannot rely on the growth and technology that have created the problems to solve them.

A Line in the Tar Sands: Struggles for Environmental Justice by Tony Weis, Joshua Kahn Russell

addicted to oil, Bakken shale, bilateral investment treaty, call centre, carbon footprint, clean water, colonial exploitation, conceptual framework, corporate social responsibility, decarbonisation, Deep Water Horizon, en.wikipedia.org, energy security, energy transition, Exxon Valdez, failed state, gentrification, global village, green new deal, guest worker program, happiness index / gross national happiness, high-speed rail, hydraulic fracturing, immigration reform, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), investor state dispute settlement, invisible hand, Jevons paradox, liberal capitalism, LNG terminal, market fundamentalism, means of production, megaproject, military-industrial complex, Naomi Klein, new economy, Occupy movement, off-the-grid, oil shale / tar sands, peak oil, profit maximization, public intellectual, race to the bottom, smart grid, special economic zone, WikiLeaks, working poor

To our elders and mentors, who remind us that the struggle has always been urgent, and that justice is a journey, not a destination. To everyone doing their part to co-create a better world, which the tar sands industry has no place in. The editors’ proceeds from this book will be donated to frontline grassroots environmental justice groups and campaigns. Table of Contents List of Contributors Foreword NAOMI KLEIN AND BILL MCKIBBEN Introduction: Drawing a Line in the Tar Sands TONY WEIS, TOBAN BLACK, STEPHEN D’ARCY, AND JOSHUA KAHN RUSSELL Part I: Tar Sands Expansionism 1. Petro-Capitalism and the Tar Sands ANGELA V. CARTER 2. Assembling Consent in Alberta: Hegemony and the Tar Sands RANDOLPH HALUZA-DELAY 3.

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He teaches and has published widely in sociology, environmental education, geography, and leisure studies, and co-edited How the World’s Religions are Responding to Climate Change: Social Scientific Investigations (Routledge). Ryan Katz-Rosene is a PhD candidate in Geography at Carleton University in Ottawa. His research interests include critical perspectives on growth, energy, and transportation, and environmental political economy. Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist, syndicated columnist, and author of the international bestsellers The Shock Doctrine and No Logo (both with Picador). Melina Laboucan-Massimo is a member of the Lubicon Cree First Nation in Alberta, Canada, and an Indigenous and environmental activist. She has worked with Redwire Media Society, the Indigenous Environmental Network, and, most recently, as a tar sands, climate, and energy campaigner with Greenpeace.

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She is a former co-editor of the award-winning magazine New Internationalist, and was a member of the campaign organization People & Planet. Lilian Yap is a doctoral student in Political Science at York University, analyzing the nature of “green work” and the recycling sectors in Toronto and Buenos Aires. Foreword NAOMI KLEIN AND BILL McKIBBEN The fight over the tar sands is among the epic environmental and social justice battles of our time, and one of the first that managed to marry quite explicitly concern for frontline communities and immediate local hazards with fear for the future of the entire planet. It began, of course, with many years of resistance from Indigenous people in the Athabasca region to the destruction of their ancestral landscapes and to the calamitous health conditions they faced.

Financial Fiasco: How America's Infatuation With Homeownership and Easy Money Created the Economic Crisis by Johan Norberg

accounting loophole / creative accounting, Alan Greenspan, bank run, banking crisis, Bear Stearns, Bernie Madoff, Black Monday: stock market crash in 1987, Black Swan, business cycle, capital controls, central bank independence, collateralized debt obligation, creative destruction, credit crunch, Credit Default Swap, credit default swaps / collateralized debt obligations, David Brooks, diversification, financial deregulation, financial innovation, Greenspan put, helicopter parent, Home mortgage interest deduction, housing crisis, Howard Zinn, Hyman Minsky, Isaac Newton, Joseph Schumpeter, Long Term Capital Management, low interest rates, market bubble, Martin Wolf, Mexican peso crisis / tequila crisis, millennium bug, money market fund, moral hazard, mortgage tax deduction, Naomi Klein, National Debt Clock, new economy, Northern Rock, Own Your Own Home, precautionary principle, price stability, Ronald Reagan, savings glut, short selling, Silicon Valley, South Sea Bubble, The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, too big to fail

His book In Defense of Global Capitalism, originally published in Swedish in 2001, has since been published in over 20 different countries. He is also the author of Nar manniskan skapade varlden, 2006 (When Mankind Created the World), the coauthor of Ett annat Sverige ar mojligt, 2006 (Another Sweden Is Possible), and Global rattvisa ar mojlig, 2001 (Global Justice Is Possible), the coauthor of Allt om Naomi Kleins nakenchock, 2008 (Naomi Klein's Baseless Shock) and the coeditor of Frihetens klassiker, 2003 (The Classics of Freedom), all of which are available only in Swedish at this time. His personal website is http://www.johannorberg.net/. He wrote and hosted Globalisation Is Good, a documentary for Channel Four in Britain.

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An official admitted to the New York Times that Treasury did not expect any practical results. It was a symbolic action "to scare the hell out of everybody," as that official put it 39 As such, it was successful beyond expectations. Socialism for the Rich In her book The Shock Doctrine, Canadian writer Naomi Klein claimed that politicians and economists exploit crises to scare voters so that they can push through unpopular liberalizations, tax cuts, and privatizations. A look at the history of government in the Western world shows her to be right that politicians exploit crises, though seldom to liberalize and reduce the size of the state but rather to increase government control, public spending, and their own power.4o The Great Depression of the 1930s is one example of that; the week following the fall of Lehman Brothers in September 2008 is another.

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Oakley, "Short-Selling Ban Has Minimal Effect." 38. Younglai, "SEC's Cox Regrets Short-Selling Ban." 39. Nocera, "Alarm Led to Action." 40. For critical scrutiny of her book, see Norberg, "The Klein Doctrine" (and for more exhaustive treatment of the issue in Swedish, Benulic and Norberg, Allt oni Naomi Kleins nakenchock). 41. The next administration thinks along similar lines. On November 19, 2008, Barack Obama's chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, treated the Wall Street Journal CEO Council to a description of the opportunity to create new political projects and regulate financial markets: "You never want a serious crisis to go to waste....

The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells

agricultural Revolution, Albert Einstein, anthropic principle, Anthropocene, Asian financial crisis, augmented reality, autism spectrum disorder, basic income, behavioural economics, Berlin Wall, bitcoin, Blockadia, British Empire, Buckminster Fuller, Burning Man, Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty, carbon footprint, carbon tax, carbon-based life, Chekhov's gun, climate anxiety, cognitive bias, computer age, correlation does not imply causation, cryptocurrency, cuban missile crisis, decarbonisation, disinformation, Donald Trump, Dr. Strangelove, effective altruism, Elon Musk, endowment effect, energy transition, everywhere but in the productivity statistics, failed state, fiat currency, global pandemic, global supply chain, Great Leap Forward, income inequality, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), invention of agriculture, it's over 9,000, Joan Didion, John Maynard Keynes: Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren, Kevin Roose, Kim Stanley Robinson, labor-force participation, life extension, longitudinal study, Mark Zuckerberg, mass immigration, megacity, megastructure, Michael Shellenberger, microdosing, microplastics / micro fibres, mutually assured destruction, Naomi Klein, negative emissions, Nick Bostrom, nuclear winter, ocean acidification, off-the-grid, Paris climate accords, Pearl River Delta, Peter Thiel, plutocrats, postindustrial economy, quantitative easing, Ray Kurzweil, rent-seeking, ride hailing / ride sharing, Robert Solow, Sam Altman, Silicon Valley, Skype, South China Sea, South Sea Bubble, Steven Pinker, Stewart Brand, Ted Nordhaus, TED Talk, the built environment, The future is already here, the scientific method, Thomas Malthus, too big to fail, universal basic income, University of East Anglia, Whole Earth Catalog, William Langewiesche, Y Combinator

Can capitalism survive climate change?: Moore raises this question in Capitalism in the Web of Life, and it is discussed at some length in Benjamin Kunkel, “The Capitalocene,” London Review of Books, March 2, 2017. Klein memorably sketched out: Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (New York: Picador, 2007). the island of Puerto Rico: Naomi Klein, The Battle for Paradise: Puerto Rico Takes On the Disaster Capitalists (Chicago: Haymarket, 2018). Maria could cut Puerto Rican incomes: This comes from Hsiang and Houser’s “Don’t Let Puerto Rico Fall into an Economic Abyss,” The New York Times, September 29, 2017.

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Trade will surely endure, perhaps even thrive, as indeed it did before capitalism—individuals making trades and exchanges outside a single totalizing system to organize the activity. Rent-seeking, too, will continue, with those who can scrambling to accumulate whatever advantages they can buy—the incentive only increasing in a world more barren of resources, and more mournful of recent apparent abundance, now disappeared. This last is more or less the model that Naomi Klein memorably sketched out in The Shock Doctrine, in which she documents just how monolithically the forces of capital respond to crises of any kind—by demanding more space, power, and autonomy for capital. The book is not primarily about the response of financial interests to climate disasters—it focuses more on political collapse and crises of the technocrats’ own making.

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the richest 10 percent: Oxfam, “Extreme Carbon Inequality,” December 2015, www.oxfam.org/sites/www.oxfam.org/files/file_attachments/mb-extreme-carbon-inequality-021215-en.pdf. many on the Left: The argument is a pervasive one, in part because it is so persuasive, but has been made with special flair by Naomi Klein in This Changes Everything and The Battle for Paradise; Jedediah Purdy in After Nature but perhaps more strikingly in his essays and exchanges published in Dissent; and of course Andreas Malm in Fossil Capital. the socialist countries: History is not a much better guide, with Left industrialization during Stalin’s Five Year Plan or Mao’s Great Leap Forward, or even Venezuela under Hugo Chávez not offering a more responsible approach than anything that was happening in the West.

Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army by Jeremy Scahill

"World Economic Forum" Davos, air freight, anti-communist, Berlin Wall, Bernie Sanders, business climate, business intelligence, centralized clearinghouse, collective bargaining, Columbine, facts on the ground, Fall of the Berlin Wall, independent contractor, Kickstarter, military-industrial complex, multilevel marketing, Naomi Klein, no-fly zone, operational security, private military company, Project for a New American Century, Robert Bork, Ronald Reagan, school choice, school vouchers, Seymour Hersh, stem cell, Timothy McVeigh, urban planning, vertical integration, zero-sum game

Crush Them; Let Us Wage Total War on Our Foes,” Wall Street Journal, September 13, 2001. 7 Fox Special Report with Brit Hume transcript, “Terrorism Hits America,” Fox News, September 11, 2001. 8 Naomi Klein, “Downsizing in Disguise,” The Nation, June 23, 2003. 9 Ibid. 10 Ibid. 11 L. Paul Bremer, My Year in Iraq, pp. 6-7. 12 Knut Royce (Newsday), “Diplomat Expected to Take Charge in Iraq; Bremer to Replace Garner as Leader of Postwar Transition,” Seattle Times, May 2, 2003. 13 Naomi Klein, “Downsizing in Disguise,” The Nation, June 23, 2003. 14 Romesh Ratnesar with Simon Robinson, “Life Under Fire,” Time, July 14, 2003. 15 David Leigh, “General Sacked by Bush Says He Wanted Early Elections,” Guardian, March 18, 2004. 16 Mike Allen, “Expert on Terrorism to Direct Rebuilding,” Washington Post, May 2, 2003. 17 Bremer, My Year in Iraq, p. 8. 18 Scott Wilson, “Bremer Adopts Firmer Tone for U.S.

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Fast-forward to this autumn, when the Iraqi government accused Blackwater of massacring civilians in downtown Baghdad. Suddenly the book looked prescient and we learned that the same press corps that had cheered on the war had also missed the biggest story in the war zone: that Iraq is more than a failed occupation; it’s a radical experiment in corporate rule.”—Naomi Klein, The Guardian (London) “Andy McNab couldn’t have invented this prescient tale of the private army of mercenaries run by a Christian conservative millionaire who, in turn, bankrolls the president. A chilling expose of the ultimate military outsource.” —Christopher Fowler, The New Review’s “Best Books of 2007” “Fascinating and magnificently documented . . .

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This is definitely an expansion.”189 The U.S. government pays contractors as much as the combined taxes paid by everyone in the United States with incomes under $100,000, meaning “more than 90 percent of all taxpayers might as well remit everything they owe directly to [contractors] rather than to the [government],” according to a 2007 investigative report in Vanity Fair.190 As journalist Naomi Klein put it, “According to this radical vision, contractors treat the state as an ATM, withdrawing massive contracts to perform core functions like securing borders and interrogating prisoners, and making deposits in the form of campaign contributions.”191 “I think it’s extraordinarily dangerous when a nation begins to outsource its monopoly on the use of force and the use of violence in support of its foreign policy or national security objectives,” said veteran U.S. diplomat Joe Wilson, who served as the last Ambassador to Iraq before the 1991 Gulf War.

The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and Its Solutions by Jason Hickel

"World Economic Forum" Davos, Alan Greenspan, Andrei Shleifer, Asian financial crisis, Atahualpa, Bartolomé de las Casas, Bernie Sanders, Bob Geldof, Bretton Woods, British Empire, Cape to Cairo, capital controls, carbon credits, carbon footprint, carbon tax, clean water, collective bargaining, colonial rule, Cornelius Vanderbilt, David Attenborough, David Graeber, David Ricardo: comparative advantage, declining real wages, degrowth, dematerialisation, Doha Development Round, Elon Musk, European colonialism, falling living standards, financial deregulation, flying shuttle, Fractional reserve banking, Francisco Pizarro, full employment, Glass-Steagall Act, Global Witness, Hans Rosling, happiness index / gross national happiness, Howard Zinn, income inequality, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), investor state dispute settlement, James Watt: steam engine, laissez-faire capitalism, land reform, land value tax, liberal capitalism, Live Aid, Mahatma Gandhi, Money creation, Monroe Doctrine, Mont Pelerin Society, moral hazard, Naomi Klein, negative emissions, Nelson Mandela, offshore financial centre, oil shale / tar sands, out of africa, Phillips curve, planned obsolescence, plutocrats, purchasing power parity, race to the bottom, rent control, road to serfdom, Ronald Reagan, Scramble for Africa, shareholder value, sharing economy, Silicon Valley, Simon Kuznets, structural adjustment programs, TED Talk, The Chicago School, The Spirit Level, trade route, transatlantic slave trade, transfer pricing, trickle-down economics, Washington Consensus, WikiLeaks, women in the workforce, Works Progress Administration

The idea has always been to keep the basic logic of capitalism – exponential growth – in place while trying to make it a little bit less destructive than it otherwise might be. But the climate change emergency forces us to discard this approach and think seriously about the logic of capitalism itself. As Naomi Klein puts it in her most recent book, This Changes Everything, ‘Our economic system and our planetary system are at war.62 What the climate needs to avoid collapse is a contraction in humanity’s use of resources; what our economic model demands to avoid collapse is unfettered expansion. Only one of these sets of rules can be changed, and it’s not the laws of nature.’

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., p. 298. 42 ‘By the time they left …’ Angus Maddison, The World Economy, OECD, 2006. 43 ‘And, as in India …’ Davis, Late Victorian Holocausts. 44 ‘In the middle of the …’ Paul Bairoch, Economics and World History (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995). 45 ‘Even as late as 1800 …’ Paul Bairoch, ‘The Main Trends in National Economic Disparities since the Industrial Revolution’, in Paul Bairoch and Maurice Levy-Leboyer (eds), Disparities in Economic Development since the Industrial Revolution (New York: St Martin’s Press, 1975), pp. 3–17. 46 ‘Indian artisans enjoyed a better …’ Davis, Late Victorian Holocausts, pp. 292–3. 47 ‘From 1872 to 1921 …’ According to figures cited in Davis, Late Victorian Holocausts, pp. 311–12. 48 ‘Ten million Congolese perished …’ Adam Hochschild, King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa (London: Pan Books, 2006), pp. 225–33. 49 ‘And the costs of caring …’ Harold Wolpe, ‘Capitalism and cheap labor power in South Africa: from segregation to apartheid’, Economy and Society 1(4), 1972, pp. 425–56; J. S. Crush et al., South Africa’s Labor Empire: A History of Black Migrancy to the Gold Mines (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1991). 50 ‘From the late 15th …’ I am indebted to Naomi Klein for the concept of the sacrifice zone. 51 ‘By contrast, incomes in Western …’ Ha-Joon Chang, Bad Samaritans (New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2008), p. 25. 52 ‘At the end of this …’ Thomas Piketty, Capital in the 21st Century (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014), p. 69. 53 ‘This agenda became particularly clear …’ The Roosevelt Corollary was initially established to allow the US to respond militarily if Europeans invaded Latin America, which happened in 1902 when Britain, Germany and Italy blockaded Venezuela to demand debt repayment. 54 ‘The first was that the …’ One reason for this is that manufactured commodities have greater ‘elasticity of demand’, meaning that their prices rise as incomes rise.

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But protectionism in the US, which was difficult to dislodge at the time, precluded this option – so they chose instead to deepen ISI, while negotiating for the best possible terms. See Sylvia Maxfield and James Nolt, ‘Protectionism and the Internationalization of Capital’, International Studies Quarterly 34(1), 1990, pp. 49–81. 21 ‘When President Dwight Eisenhower took …’ My grasp of this narrative owes much to Naomi Klein’s The Shock Doctrine (London: Allen Lane, 2007) and Noel Maurer, The Empire Trap: The Rise and Fall of US Intervention to Protect American Property Overseas, 1893–2013 (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2013). 22 ‘Operation Ajax was one of …’ The first successful attempt by the United States to overthrow a foreign government was in Cuba in 1933, when the US backed Fulgencio Batista in his uprising against the revolutionary government of Gerardo Machado.

Undoing Border Imperialism by Harsha Walia

Corrections Corporation of America, critical race theory, degrowth, emotional labour, Howard Zinn, illegal immigration, imposter syndrome, informal economy, Internet Archive, mass incarceration, means of production, Mohammed Bouazizi, moral panic, Naomi Klein, Occupy movement, oil shale / tar sands, public intellectual, race to the bottom, Scramble for Africa, Silicon Valley, structural adjustment programs, telemarketer, women in the workforce

I am indebted to Hari Alluri, Lisa Bhungalia, Fariah Chowdhury, Stefan Christoff, Nassim Elbardouh, Mary Foster, Harjap Grewal, Stefanie Gude, Alex Hundert, Andrew Loewen, Cecily Nicholson, Dana Olwan, Dawn Paley, Sozan Savehilaghi, Andréa Schmidt, Parul Sehgal, Naava Smolash, and Shayna Stock for their diligent comments and edits. Any errors within this book, however, are my own. Thank you to all the brilliant contributors for their wisdom, Andrea Smith for honoring the book with a foreword, Ashanti Alston, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Naomi Klein, and Vijay Prashad for humbling blurbs, Melanie Cervantes and Josh MacPhee of Justseeds for stunning design work, Zach Blue, Christa Daring, and Charles Weigl of AK Press for publishing this manuscript, and Chris Dixon and Cindy Milstein of the IAS for soliciting, encouraging, supporting, and editing this manuscript, and essentially being the backbone of this entire process.

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According to Detention Watch Network, five prison corporations that hold contracts with the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement have poured twenty million dollars into lobbying efforts.(55) Arizona’s controversial SB 1070, which legalizes racial profiling based on “suspicion of being an illegal immigrant,” was drafted during a meeting between state legislators and the Corrections Corporation of America, the largest private prison corporation in the United States.(56) This is part of what Naomi Klein calls “a privatized security state, both at home and abroad,” as she outlines how the War on Terror has maximized profitability for security markets.(57) In this lucrative market of migrant detention and border securitization, the value of Israeli exports in security technologies has almost quadrupled.(58) A notable example is the contract for the border fence between the United States and Mexico going to a consortium of companies including Elbit.

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Detention Watch Network, “The Influence of the Private Prison Industry in Immigration Detention,” http://www.detentionwatchnetwork.org/privateprisons (accessed July 5, 2012). 56. Laura Sullivan, “Prison Economics Help Drive Arizona Immigration Law,” National Public Radio, October 28, 2010, http://www.npr.org/2010/10/28/130833741/prison-economics-help-drive-ariz-immigration-law (accessed November 1, 2012). 57. Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2007), 299. 58. “Israel Shows Off Its Homeland Security Technologies to International Visitors,” Times of Israel, May 20, 2012, http://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-shows-off-its-homeland-security-technologies-to-international-visitors/ (accessed July 6, 2012). 59.

Starbucked: A Double Tall Tale of Caffeine, Commerce, and Culture by Taylor Clark

Berlin Wall, Black Monday: stock market crash in 1987, commoditize, cuban missile crisis, David Brooks, deskilling, digital capitalism, Edmond Halley, fear of failure, gentrification, Honoré de Balzac, indoor plumbing, Isaac Newton, Jeff Bezos, McJob, McMansion, Naomi Klein, pneumatic tube, Ray Oldenburg, Ronald Reagan, tech worker, The Great Good Place, trade route

In fact, if you read a comment by a Starbucks employee and he or she doesn’t mention the “Starbucks Experience,” the phrase “surprise and delight,” or the company mission statement, something has gone horribly wrong. Because once Starbucks figured out what its customers wanted, it never went off-message again. Phase 2: Salivating at the Dinner Bell That Starbucks would seek to become — in the liberal social critic Naomi Klein’s words — “the coffee shop that wants to stare deep into your eyes and ‘connect’ ” was no surprise, given the tenor of the time. After the minor cataclysm known as “Marlboro Friday” sent Wall Street into a panic, every American company with a pulse scrambled to infuse itself with a lofty “purpose.”

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“These guys at Starbucks are seriously good at locating coffee bars,” wrote one of them, David Schomer of Seattle’s Espresso Vivace, in a primer on how to compete with Starbucks. “Just open your coffee bar next to one.” As Schomer knows, in a side-by-side comparison, customers will often choose quality and uniqueness over efficiency and uniformity. Naomi Klein, creator of the antichain “No Logo” movement, has lambasted Starbucks over its habit of clustering stores and opening next to mom and pops, but in the coffee-house business, a cluster of cafés can do better as a group than each café would alone. Just as a thicket of restaurants or gas stations will amplify business for everyone by forming a nexus people instinctively gravitate toward when they think food or gas, a Starbucks and an independent can work in tandem to draw more coffee drinkers.

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For more on Starbucks’s marketing and the story of the “Big Dig,” see Scott Bedbury and Stephen Fenichell, A New Brand World: 8 Principles for Achieving Brand Leadership in the 21st Century (New York: Viking, 2002); and Kim Murphy, “More Than Coffee, a Way of Life,” Los Angeles Times, September 22, 1996. Page 92. The story of Starbucks hypnotizing “hip young people” comes from Ruth Shalit, “Hypnotizing Slackers for Starbucks, and Other Visionary Acts of Marketing Research,” Salon.com, September 28, 1999. Page 93. Naomi Klein, No Logo (New York: Picador, 2002). David Brooks, Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000). Page 94. Howard Schultz and Dori Jones Yang, Pour Your Heart into It: How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time (New York: Hyperion, 1997).

This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate by Naomi Klein

"World Economic Forum" Davos, 1960s counterculture, activist fund / activist shareholder / activist investor, An Inconvenient Truth, Anthropocene, battle of ideas, Berlin Wall, Big Tech, big-box store, bilateral investment treaty, Blockadia, Boeing 747, British Empire, business climate, Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty, carbon credits, carbon footprint, carbon tax, clean tech, clean water, Climategate, cognitive dissonance, coherent worldview, colonial rule, Community Supported Agriculture, complexity theory, crony capitalism, decarbonisation, degrowth, deindustrialization, dematerialisation, different worldview, Donald Trump, Downton Abbey, Dr. Strangelove, electricity market, energy security, energy transition, equal pay for equal work, extractivism, Exxon Valdez, failed state, fake news, Fall of the Berlin Wall, feminist movement, financial deregulation, food miles, Food sovereignty, gentrification, geopolitical risk, global supply chain, green transition, high-speed rail, hydraulic fracturing, ice-free Arctic, immigration reform, income per capita, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Internet Archive, invention of the steam engine, invisible hand, Isaac Newton, James Watt: steam engine, Jones Act, Kickstarter, Kim Stanley Robinson, land bank, light touch regulation, man camp, managed futures, market fundamentalism, Medieval Warm Period, Michael Shellenberger, military-industrial complex, moral hazard, Naomi Klein, new economy, Nixon shock, Occupy movement, ocean acidification, off-the-grid, offshore financial centre, oil shale / tar sands, open borders, patent troll, Pearl River Delta, planetary scale, planned obsolescence, post-oil, precautionary principle, profit motive, quantitative easing, race to the bottom, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Rana Plaza, remunicipalization, renewable energy transition, Ronald Reagan, Russell Brand, scientific management, smart grid, special economic zone, Stephen Hawking, Stewart Brand, structural adjustment programs, Ted Kaczynski, Ted Nordhaus, TED Talk, the long tail, the scientific method, The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, trade route, transatlantic slave trade, trickle-down economics, Upton Sinclair, uranium enrichment, urban planning, urban sprawl, vertical integration, Virgin Galactic, wages for housework, walkable city, Washington Consensus, Wayback Machine, We are all Keynesians now, Whole Earth Catalog, WikiLeaks

Klein is a contributing editor for Harper’s magazine, a reporter for Rolling Stone, and a syndicated columnist for The Nation and The Guardian. She is a member of the board of directors of 350.org and a Puffin Foundation Writing Fellow at The Nation Institute. MEET THE AUTHORS, WATCH VIDEOS AND MORE AT SimonandSchuster.com authors.simonandschuster.com/Naomi-Klein ALSO BY NAOMI KLEIN The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debate We hope you enjoyed reading this Simon & Schuster eBook. * * * Join our mailing list and get updates on new releases, deals, bonus content and other great books from Simon & Schuster.

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You and What Army? Indigenous Rights and the Power of Keeping Our Word 12. Sharing the Sky: The Atmospheric Commons and the Power of Paying Our Debts 13. The Right to Regenerate: Moving from Extraction to Renewal Conclusion  The Leap Years: Just Enough Time for Impossible Acknowledgments About Naomi Klein Notes Index For Toma “We need to remember that the work of our time is bigger than climate change. We need to be setting our sights higher and deeper. What we’re really talking about, if we’re honest with ourselves, is transforming everything about the way we live on this planet.” —Rebecca Tarbotton, Executive Director of the Rainforest Action Network, 1973–20121 “In my books I’ve imagined people salting the Gulf Stream, damming the glaciers sliding off the Greenland ice cap, pumping ocean water into the dry basins of the Sahara and Asia to create salt seas, pumping melted ice from Antarctica north to provide freshwater, genetically engineering bacteria to sequester more carbon in the roots of trees, raising Florida 30 feet to get it back above water, and (hardest of all) comprehensively changing capitalism.”

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More personal thanks go to Misha Klein, Michele Landsberg, Stephen Lewis, Frances Coady, Nancy Friedland, David Wall, Sarah Polley, Kelly O’Brien, Cecilie Surasky and Carolyn Hunt, Sara Angel, Anthony Arnove, Brenda Coughlin, John Greyson, Stephen Andrews, Anne Biringer, Michael Sommers, Belinda Reyes, and Ofelia Whiteley. My deepest thanks go to little Toma, for his truly heroic feats of toddler patience. He is about to learn that the world is a lot bigger than our neighborhood. Photograph © Suzanne DeChillo/The New York Times/Redux NAOMI KLEIN is an award-winning journalist and the author of the critically acclaimed #1 international bestseller The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism and No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies, which The New York Times called “a movement bible.” Klein is a contributing editor for Harper’s magazine, a reporter for Rolling Stone, and a syndicated columnist for The Nation and The Guardian.

The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power by Joel Bakan

"World Economic Forum" Davos, Alan Greenspan, benefit corporation, Berlin Wall, business logic, Cass Sunstein, corporate governance, corporate personhood, corporate social responsibility, creative destruction, electricity market, energy security, Exxon Valdez, Ford Model T, IBM and the Holocaust, joint-stock company, laissez-faire capitalism, market fundamentalism, Naomi Klein, new economy, precautionary principle, race to the bottom, Ralph Nader, Ronald Reagan, shareholder value, South Sea Bubble, The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, urban sprawl

People should confront corporations directly, in the streets and through nongovernmental organizations and community coalitions , they say, rather than relying on governments to forge solutions. "We should be directly pointing the finger at businesses, not even bothering with the governments," says Anita Roddick,19 reflecting a widely held view that is also expressed by antiglobalization activist and pundit Naomi Klein: "We see corporations as the most powerful Page 151 political entities of our time, and we are responding to them as citizens , citizens to political organizations. . . . The corporation has become the new site of protest. . . . Rather than protesting on the doorsteps of governments on Sunday afternoon when no one is there, they're protesting outside of the Niketown on Fifth Avenue."

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Robert Monks says, "Particularly since the Berlin Wall came down in 1989, it probably is clear that the heads of large corporations have more impact on your life and the lives of citizens around the world than the head of any country." 51. Interviews with Chris Komisarjevsky and Clay Timon. For an excellent critical discussion of branding and its implications for society, see Naomi Klein, No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies (Toronto: Knopf Canada, 2000). More generally, the notion that corporations are persons-individuals- Back Matter Page 7 176 NOTES has served throughout history to obscure, in both law and public opinion, the fact that corporations exercise the collective economic power of vast numbers of shareholders and thus are profoundly more powerful than the rest of us. 52.

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And today I think that corporations are externalizing a lot of costs onto the community, whether it's the cost of burning up employees by increasing the work time, by working them for a few years and then throwing them out, by not paying the full cost of the labor that employees give to a firm, by coming into a community, getting all sorts of grants, and then turning around and leaving it in worse shape than they entered. All of those things externalize the cost onto the community of the corporation." 19. Quoted in Editorial, The Sunday Herald (Scotland), August 26, 2001. 20. Interview with Naomi Klein. 21. Interview with Noam Chomsky. 22. Indeed, from the perspective of its supposed beneficiaries, the regulatory system was imperfect from the beginning. Historically, regulation was a compromise, supported by many among the business elite, between business 's desire for freedom from controls and calls for more radical change.

Equal Is Unfair: America's Misguided Fight Against Income Inequality by Don Watkins, Yaron Brook

3D printing, Affordable Care Act / Obamacare, Apple II, barriers to entry, Berlin Wall, Bernie Madoff, blue-collar work, business process, Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty, Cass Sunstein, collective bargaining, colonial exploitation, Cornelius Vanderbilt, corporate governance, correlation does not imply causation, creative destruction, Credit Default Swap, crony capitalism, David Brooks, deskilling, Edward Glaeser, Elon Musk, en.wikipedia.org, financial deregulation, immigration reform, income inequality, indoor plumbing, inventory management, invisible hand, Isaac Newton, Jeff Bezos, Jony Ive, laissez-faire capitalism, Louis Pasteur, low skilled workers, means of production, minimum wage unemployment, Naomi Klein, new economy, obamacare, Peter Singer: altruism, Peter Thiel, profit motive, rent control, Ronald Reagan, Silicon Valley, Skype, Solyndra, statistical model, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, The Spirit Level, too big to fail, trickle-down economics, Uber for X, urban renewal, War on Poverty, wealth creators, women in the workforce, working poor, zero-sum game

In their popular critique of economic inequality, The Spirit Level, Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett tell us that “we need to limit economic growth severely in rich countries,” because “[o]nce we have enough of the necessities of life, it is the relativities which matter.”13 Similarly, best-selling author Naomi Klein argues that to truly deal with the problem of inequality, we must reject capitalism altogether, give up on the idea of economic progress, and embrace a decentralized agrarian form of socialism.14 Left-wing radio host Thom Hartmann will settle merely for banning billionaires: “I say it’s time we outlaw billionaires by placing a 100% tax on any wealth over $999,999,999.

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In every case, Piketty acknowledges that “these very high brackets never yield much” in the way of tax revenues. That is not the point. The point, he says, is “to put an end to such incomes and large estates.”78 The most consistent alarmists—those who value equality above all else—openly admit that they do not care about freedom and progress. Best-selling author Naomi Klein argues that to truly deal with the problem of inequality, we must reject capitalism altogether, give up on the idea of economic progress, and embrace a decentralized agrarian form of socialism.79 In The Spirit Level, Wilkinson and Pickett reach a similar conclusion, telling us that “we need to limit economic growth severely in rich countries.”

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We Can Choose Otherwise,” Washington Monthly, November/December 2014, http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/novemberdecember_2014/features/conclusion_slow_growth_and_ine052716.php (accessed April 12, 2015). 11. Obama, “Remarks by the President on Economic Mobility.” 12. Piketty, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, pp. 513, 517. 13. Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett, The Spirit Level (New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2009), pp. 225–26. 14. Naomi Klein, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2014). 15. Thom Hartmann, “The No Billionaires Campaign,” OpEdNews, July 18, 2012, http://www.opednews.com/populum/printer_friendly.php?content=a&id=153218 (accessed April 12, 2015). 16. Stiglitz, The Price of Inequality, p. 8. 17.

Zero-Sum Future: American Power in an Age of Anxiety by Gideon Rachman

"World Economic Forum" Davos, Alan Greenspan, Asian financial crisis, bank run, battle of ideas, Berlin Wall, Big bang: deregulation of the City of London, Bonfire of the Vanities, borderless world, Bretton Woods, BRICs, capital controls, carbon tax, centre right, clean water, collapse of Lehman Brothers, colonial rule, currency manipulation / currency intervention, deindustrialization, Deng Xiaoping, Doha Development Round, energy security, failed state, Fall of the Berlin Wall, financial deregulation, Francis Fukuyama: the end of history, full employment, Glass-Steagall Act, global reserve currency, Global Witness, Golden arches theory, Great Leap Forward, greed is good, Greenspan put, Hernando de Soto, illegal immigration, income inequality, invisible hand, It's morning again in America, Jeff Bezos, laissez-faire capitalism, Live Aid, low interest rates, market fundamentalism, Martin Wolf, mass immigration, Mexican peso crisis / tequila crisis, Mikhail Gorbachev, moral hazard, mutually assured destruction, Naomi Klein, Nelson Mandela, offshore financial centre, Oklahoma City bombing, open borders, open economy, Peace of Westphalia, peak oil, pension reform, plutocrats, popular capitalism, price stability, RAND corporation, reserve currency, rising living standards, road to serfdom, Ronald Reagan, Savings and loan crisis, shareholder value, Sinatra Doctrine, sovereign wealth fund, special economic zone, Steve Jobs, Stewart Brand, Tax Reform Act of 1986, The Chicago School, The Great Moderation, The Myth of the Rational Market, Thomas Malthus, Timothy McVeigh, trickle-down economics, Washington Consensus, Winter of Discontent, zero-sum game

The original antiglobalizers had been outflanked by a much more violent, ruthless, and radical rejectionist movement. The critics of globalization were so diverse that it is impossible to pick a single figure to exemplify the movement. They ranged all the way from a Nobel Prize–winning economist like Joseph Stiglitz to fulminating journalists like Naomi Klein to—at the extreme end—terrorist movements like al-Qaeda. The antiglobalization crowd included far-left radicals who despised global capitalism and far-right radicals who believed that globalization was an excuse for the creation of a single world government. Some argued that globalization was destroying the livelihoods of Western workers by subjecting them to merciless competition from Asians laboring for less than a dollar a day.

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South Korea and Thailand were two of the biggest victims of the Asian economic crisis, but the South Koreans only had to look across the border to North Korea to be reminded that economic isolation offered far worse and more devastating prospects. The Thais could perform the same exercise by looking across their western border into isolated, dictatorial, impoverished Burma, where a military junta had violently repressed the country’s democracy movement in 1990. What Joseph Stiglitz and Naomi Klein put their fingers on was a feeling that globalization was a project that benefited elites more than ordinary people. It was certainly true that the globalization consensus seemed firmest in places where the international political and business elite gathered, such as the World Economic Forum in Davos.

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THE ANTIGLOBALIZERS: FROM THE ASIAN CRISIS TO 9/11 1. Philippe Legrain, Open World: The Truth about Globalisation (London: Abacus, 2002), 17. 2. Quoted in Derek Chollet and James Goldgeier, America Between the Wars: From 11/9 to 9/11 (New York: PublicAffairs, 2008), 256. 3. Ibid., 257. 4. Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine (New York: Henry Holt, 2007). 5. Quoted in Legrain, Open World, 25. 6. Cited in William Greider, Come Home America: The Rise and Fall (and Redeeming Promise) of Our Country (New York: Rodale, 2009), 70. 7. Joseph Stiglitz, Globalization and Its Discontents (London: Penguin, 2002), 4. 8.

Dreaming in Public: Building the Occupy Movement by Amy Lang, Daniel Lang/levitsky

activist lawyer, Bay Area Rapid Transit, bonus culture, British Empire, capitalist realism, clean water, cognitive dissonance, collective bargaining, corporate governance, corporate personhood, crowdsourcing, David Graeber, deindustrialization, different worldview, facts on the ground, gentrification, glass ceiling, housing crisis, housing justice, Kibera, late capitalism, lolcat, mass incarceration, military-industrial complex, Naomi Klein, Nelson Mandela, Occupy movement, oil shale / tar sands, out of africa, plutocrats, Port of Oakland, Rosa Parks, Saturday Night Live, Slavoj Žižek, social contagion, structural adjustment programs, the medium is the message, too big to fail, trade liberalization, union organizing, upwardly mobile, urban renewal, War on Poverty, We are Anonymous. We are Legion, We are the 99%, white flight, working poor

ISBN 978-1-78026-085-3 Contents Preface Staughton Lynd Foreword Eileen Myles Anonymous Introduction Amy Schrager Lang & Daniel Lang/Levitsky The Politics of the Impossible Information Desk Richard Kim The Audacity of Occupy Wall Street Ira Livingston Darth Vader and Occupy Wall Street: A Twitter Essay Naomi Klein The Most Important Thing in the World Media Declaration of the Occupation of New York City Occupy Student Debt Campaign Pledges & Principles The Mortville Declaration of Independence Council of Elders Occupy Wall Street Statement of Solidarity UAW Local 2865 Resolution in Support of Occupy Oakland General Strike American Library Association Occupy Wall Street Library Resolution & Press Statement jóvenes en resistencia alternativa Solidarity Statement: We walk by asking, we reclaim by Occupying Organization of Women’s Freedom in Iraq Message of Solidarity to Occupy Wall Street Comrades from Cairo Response to OWS Egypt Delegation Proposal Library Barbara Kingsolver Another American Way Angus Johnston What I Saw at #OccupyWallStreet Last Night, and What I Saw When I Left Adrienne Maree Brown from liberty plaza; let it breathe Adrienne Maree Brown, Jenny Lee, Yusef Shakur, et al One Step in Building the ‘Occupy/Unify’ Movement in Detroit Keguro Macharia Occupy DC (Hasty Notes) Jaime Omar Yassin Occupy Oakland Day Four: Wherein I speak to some folks, and the General Assembly debates MoveOn’s move in Facilitation Anne Tagonist Heirs to the Autonomen DeColonize LA Statement Larisa Mann On Occupy Wall Street Hannah Chadeyane Appel The Bureaucracies of Anarchy (Parts 1 & 2) Sonny Singh Occupying Process, Processing Occupy: Spokes Council musings by one POC Safer Spaces Jaime Omar Yassin Occupy Oakland: Hugs Are Also an Option Occupy Boston Women’s Caucus Statement A Bunch of Trans Women Occupiers OWS Must Resist Cis-Supremacy and Trans-Misogyny Aaron Bady Society Must Be Defended From Rats Occupy Wall Street Safer Spaces Working Group Transforming Harm & Building Safety: Confronting sexual violence at Occupy Wall Street and beyond People of Color Bruce A Dixon Occupy Where?

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Ira Livingston, by contrast, in Twitter-inspired 140-character lines echoing the way information circulates about Occupy, meditates on the impossibility of inhabiting neoliberal late capitalism. Deploying the fantasies of omnipotence that in US commercial culture carry fascist overtones, but in lived experience provide the possibility for social agency, he considers how we move from a sudden sense of political vitality to an active political stance. Naomi Klein, recalling the successful direct action that shut down the 1999 World Trade Organization Ministerial Conference in Seattle and the less successful subsequent actions at international financial institution summits that followed, addresses the difference that unlimited time and a changed target makes.

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. ♦ (Acknowledgments: Many thanks to Thad Ziolkowski for insight into the VW ad, Jennifer Miller for citing Dread Scott, and apologies to Jayna for the Woody Guthrie references!) bullybloggers.wordpress.com/2011/11/13/darth-vader-and-occupy-wall-street-a-twitteressay-by-ira-livingston/trackback/ I’LL BELIEVE CORPORATIONS ARE PEOPLE WHEN TEXAS EXECUTES ONE The Most Important Thing in the World Naomi Klein 6 October 2011 I was honored to be invited to speak at Occupy Wall Street on Thursday night. Since amplification is (disgracefully) banned, and everything I say will have to be repeated by hundreds of people so others can hear (aka ‘the human microphone’), what I actually say at Liberty Plaza will have to be very short.

Pity the Billionaire: The Unexpected Resurgence of the American Right by Thomas Frank

Affordable Care Act / Obamacare, Alan Greenspan, bank run, Bear Stearns, big-box store, bonus culture, business cycle, carbon tax, classic study, collateralized debt obligation, collective bargaining, commoditize, Credit Default Swap, credit default swaps / collateralized debt obligations, crony capitalism, Deng Xiaoping, false flag, financial innovation, General Magic , Glass-Steagall Act, housing crisis, invisible hand, junk bonds, Kickstarter, low interest rates, money market fund, Naomi Klein, obamacare, Overton Window, payday loans, profit maximization, profit motive, road to serfdom, Robert Bork, Ronald Reagan, shareholder value, strikebreaker, The Chicago School, The Myth of the Rational Market, Thorstein Veblen, too big to fail, union organizing, Washington Consensus, white flight, Works Progress Administration

Over the last four decades, Thatcher’s ideological comrades brought their free-market plans to countries all around the globe, remaking the souls of Chileans, Argentines, Poles, and Iraqis as the opportunities presented. Societies were “transformed,” all right: dynamited, bulldozed, privatized, swept away. And in the classic 2007 account of this particular chapter in civilization’s development, the journalist Naomi Klein explains that it often happened in the aftermath of crises: hurricanes, military coups, civil wars. An entire program of market-based reforms would be installed all of a sudden as a sort of “shock therapy” when traditional social systems had been knocked off balance.8 Let me repeat, before we proceed, that what I am describing were the acts of conservatives: professional economists using crisis to impose what they knew to be the correct social model—the market model—on nations that were not really interested in it.

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Also: that this really happened, that the economists talked about it openly. To hear the resurgent Right tell it, however, the only place where you’ll find such ruinous strategies in discussion are in the war rooms of the sneaky Left, as they plot to destroy the free market itself. In a curious inversion of Naomi Klein’s argument, the rejuvenated Right fastened on a single flippant 2008 remark from then-incoming White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel—“You never want a serious crisis to go to waste”—and convinced itself on the basis of this one clue that a cadre of left-wingers were planning all manner of offenses against democracy including, in some tellings, the overthrow of capitalism itself, with the financial crisis as a pretext.

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According to political scientist David Campbell and sociologist Robert Putnam, Tea Party activists tended to be highly partisan Republicans before the Tea Party conquered the headlines in 2009. See Campbell and Putnam, “Crashing the Tea Party,” New York Times, August 16, 2011. 7. See, for example, http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/Examiner-Opinion-Zone/matthew-vadum-The-Lefts-Blueprint-for-perpetual-power-94527604.html. 8. See Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine (New York: Metropolitan, 2007), pp. 6–7. 9. Glenn Beck, The Overton Window, p. 147. 10. Ibid., pp. 74, 276, 286, 296–97, and again on 303–4. 11. FEMA’s plans also would have outlawed strikes. See Jack Anderson’s column on the subject, September 25, 1984. See also Alfonso Chardy, “Reagan Advisers Ran ‘Secret’ Government,” Miami Herald, July 5, 1987. 12.

Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future by Johan Norberg

agricultural Revolution, anti-communist, availability heuristic, Bartolomé de las Casas, Berlin Wall, bread and circuses, British Empire, business climate, carbon tax, classic study, clean water, continuation of politics by other means, Daniel Kahneman / Amos Tversky, demographic transition, desegregation, Donald Trump, Edward Jenner, Flynn Effect, germ theory of disease, Gini coefficient, Great Leap Forward, Gunnar Myrdal, Haber-Bosch Process, Hans Island, Hans Rosling, Ignaz Semmelweis: hand washing, income inequality, income per capita, indoor plumbing, Isaac Newton, Jane Jacobs, John Snow's cholera map, Kibera, Louis Pasteur, Mahatma Gandhi, meta-analysis, Mikhail Gorbachev, more computing power than Apollo, moveable type in China, Naomi Klein, Nelson Mandela, open economy, place-making, Rosa Parks, sexual politics, special economic zone, Steven Pinker, telerobotics, The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, transatlantic slave trade, very high income, working poor, Xiaogang Anhui farmers, zero-sum game

Stockholm: Bonniers, 2009, p. 15. 4 ‘Hearing to receive testimony on the impacts of sequestration and/or full-year continuing resolution of the Department of Defense’, US Senate, Committee on Armed Services, Washington DC, 12 February 2013. http://www.armed-services.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/13-03%20-%202-12-13.pdf (accessed on 12 April 2016). 5 ‘Pope criticizes globalization, denies he is Marxist’, TeleSUR, 11 January 2015. http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Pope-Criticizes-Globalization-Denies-he-is-Marxist-20150111-0015.html (accessed on 12 April 2016). 6 Suzanne Goldenberg, ‘Naomi Klein: “We tried it your way and we don’t have another decade to waste” ’, Guardian, 14 September 2015, http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/sep/14/naomi-klein-interview-capitalism-vs-the-climate (accessed on 12 April 2016). 7 John Gray, Heresies: Against Progress and Other Illusions. London: Granta UK, 2004, p. 32. 8 Angus Maddison, The World Economy: Historical Statistics.

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General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, recently testified before US Congress: ‘I will personally attest to the fact that . . . [the world] is more dangerous than it has ever been.’4 Pope Francis claims that globalization has condemned many people to starve: ‘It is true that in absolute terms the world’s wealth has grown, but inequality and poverty have arisen.’5 On the political left, activist Naomi Klein argues our civilization is ‘on a collision course’, and that we are ‘destabilising our planet’s life support system’.6 On the right, philosopher John Gray thinks that human beings are ‘homo rapiens’, a predatory and destructive species that is approaching the end of civilization.7 I used to share their pessimism.

Double Entry: How the Merchants of Venice Shaped the Modern World - and How Their Invention Could Make or Break the Planet by Jane Gleeson-White

Affordable Care Act / Obamacare, Alan Greenspan, Bernie Madoff, Black Swan, British Empire, business cycle, carbon footprint, corporate governance, credit crunch, double entry bookkeeping, full employment, Gordon Gekko, income inequality, invention of movable type, invention of writing, Islamic Golden Age, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johannes Kepler, joint-stock company, joint-stock limited liability company, Joseph Schumpeter, Mahbub ul Haq, means of production, Naomi Klein, Nelson Mandela, Ponzi scheme, shareholder value, Silicon Valley, Simon Kuznets, source of truth, spice trade, spinning jenny, The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, Thomas Malthus, trade route, traveling salesman, upwardly mobile

As such, practitioners of the rare mathematic arts can become the powerful priests of investing, thanks to their strange and obscure language, much the way the medieval church trafficked in Latin’. The antics of the share market and its mathematical wizards manipulate not only the wealth of individuals and corporations, they also dramatically shape the political life of nations. Naomi Klein gives a stark example of the impact of markets on politics. Following the election of Nelson Mandela as President of South Africa, ‘Every time a top party official said something that hinted that the ominous Freedom Charter might still become policy, the market responded with a shock, sending the rand into free fall.

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A grand plan to remake their country—a plan which had been conceived in the aftermath of the civil war—was carried out after the tsunami had ruined the beaches where the fishermen lived. International organisations, including the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank, arrived to ‘plot Sri Lanka’s entry into the world economy’, as Naomi Klein puts it. Before the makeover overseen by these organisations, the men’s small-scale fishing had been their livelihood, giving them enough to feed their families. But their subsistence fishing did not contribute to economic growth as measured by the GDP figures used by organisations such as the World Bank and so it was expendable.

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p. 219 ‘accounts are used to . . .’ Ibid., p. 47. p. 220 ‘Most are idiot savants brought . . .’ Frank Ahrens, ‘For Wall Street’s math brains, miscalculations’, Washington Post, 21 August 2007. p. 220 ‘Math’s universal principles . . .’ Ibid. p. 221 ‘Every time a top party official said something . . .’ Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine, Penguin Books, Camberwell, 2007, p. 207. p. 222 Economist Raj Patel points out that . . . The discussion of the corporation draws extensively on Raj Patel, The Value of Nothing, Black Inc., Melbourne, 2009, p. 41. p. 222 Enron is revealed as having behaved . . . Niall Ferguson, The Ascent of Money: A financial history of the world, Penguin Books, Melbourne, 2008, p. 172.

The End of Doom: Environmental Renewal in the Twenty-First Century by Ronald Bailey

3D printing, additive manufacturing, agricultural Revolution, Albert Einstein, Anthropocene, Asilomar, autonomous vehicles, biodiversity loss, business cycle, carbon tax, Cass Sunstein, Climatic Research Unit, commodity super cycle, conceptual framework, corporate governance, creative destruction, credit crunch, David Attenborough, decarbonisation, dematerialisation, demographic transition, disinformation, disruptive innovation, diversified portfolio, double helix, energy security, failed state, financial independence, Ford Model T, Garrett Hardin, Gary Taubes, Great Leap Forward, hydraulic fracturing, income inequality, Induced demand, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), invisible hand, knowledge economy, meta-analysis, Naomi Klein, negative emissions, Neolithic agricultural revolution, ocean acidification, oil shale / tar sands, oil shock, pattern recognition, peak oil, Peter Calthorpe, phenotype, planetary scale, precautionary principle, price stability, profit motive, purchasing power parity, race to the bottom, RAND corporation, Recombinant DNA, rent-seeking, rewilding, Stewart Brand, synthetic biology, systematic bias, Tesla Model S, trade liberalization, Tragedy of the Commons, two and twenty, University of East Anglia, uranium enrichment, women in the workforce, yield curve

In his 2014 book, Oil and Honey, McKibben sees future climate change as portending “an endless chain of disasters that will turn civilization into a never-ending emergency response drill.” McKibben’s prescription is a turn away from global consumerism toward the organic and local, to “a nation of careful, small-scale farmers who can adapt to the crazed new world with care and grace, and who don’t do much more damage in the process.” Fierce progressive activist Naomi Klein in her newest screed, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate, declares, “Our economic system and our planetary system are now at war.” Klein asserts that the progressive values and policies she advocates are “currently being vindicated, rather than refuted, by the laws of nature.” Climate science, she further claims, has given progressives “the most powerful argument against unfettered capitalism” ever.

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In addition, the researchers note, beliefs about the risks of climate change “come to bear meanings congenial to some cultural outlooks but hostile to others.” In this case, Egalitarian/Communitarians, who are generally eager to rein in what they regard as the unjust excesses of technological progress and commerce, see carbon rationing as an effective tool to achieve that goal. This view is distilled in Naomi Klein’s book This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate. Not surprisingly, Hierarchical/Individualists are highly suspicious when proposals involving carbon rationing just happen to fit the cultural values and policy preferences of Egalitarian/Communitarians. Kahan and his colleagues at the Yale Cultural Cognition Project suggest the Hierarchical/Individualists discount scientific information about climate change because it is strongly associated with the promotion of carbon rationing as the exclusive policy remedy for the problem.

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The Climate Change Bottom Line Despite the current pause in global warming and the real failings in climate computer model projections, the balance of the scientific evidence suggests that man-made climate change could become a significant problem by the end of this century. As we have seen, political progressives and environmentalists like Naomi Klein fervently promote the “climate crisis” as a pretext for radically transforming the world’s economy in ways that ratify their own ideological predilections. Thus they advocate the imposition of vast top-down regulatory schemes that ultimately amount to various forms of carbon and energy rationing.

Reset by Ronald J. Deibert

23andMe, active measures, air gap, Airbnb, Amazon Web Services, Anthropocene, augmented reality, availability heuristic, behavioural economics, Bellingcat, Big Tech, bitcoin, blockchain, blood diamond, Brexit referendum, Buckminster Fuller, business intelligence, Cal Newport, call centre, Cambridge Analytica, carbon footprint, cashless society, Citizen Lab, clean water, cloud computing, computer vision, confounding variable, contact tracing, contact tracing app, content marketing, coronavirus, corporate social responsibility, COVID-19, crowdsourcing, data acquisition, data is the new oil, decarbonisation, deep learning, deepfake, Deng Xiaoping, disinformation, Donald Trump, Doomsday Clock, dual-use technology, Edward Snowden, Elon Musk, en.wikipedia.org, end-to-end encryption, Evgeny Morozov, failed state, fake news, Future Shock, game design, gig economy, global pandemic, global supply chain, global village, Google Hangouts, Great Leap Forward, high-speed rail, income inequality, information retrieval, information security, Internet of things, Jaron Lanier, Jeff Bezos, John Markoff, Lewis Mumford, liberal capitalism, license plate recognition, lockdown, longitudinal study, Mark Zuckerberg, Marshall McLuhan, mass immigration, megastructure, meta-analysis, military-industrial complex, move fast and break things, Naomi Klein, natural language processing, New Journalism, NSO Group, off-the-grid, Peter Thiel, planetary scale, planned obsolescence, post-truth, proprietary trading, QAnon, ransomware, Robert Mercer, Sheryl Sandberg, Shoshana Zuboff, Silicon Valley, single source of truth, Skype, Snapchat, social distancing, sorting algorithm, source of truth, sovereign wealth fund, sparse data, speech recognition, Steve Bannon, Steve Jobs, Stuxnet, surveillance capitalism, techlash, technological solutionism, the long tail, the medium is the message, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere, TikTok, TSMC, undersea cable, unit 8200, Vannevar Bush, WikiLeaks, zero day, zero-sum game

Drawing inspiration from some of the ways republican-inspired thinkers have conceptualized restraint mechanisms in the past, I put forward some suggestions for how we might think about restraint measures in our own times — as means to rein in the excesses of social media and guard against abuses of power, all the while preserving the great potential of our communications ecosystem. After our reset, I argue, we need to double down on restraint. * * * While Reset is written in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, its larger backdrop is the looming climate crisis and the existential risks it poses to human civilization. As environmental activist and author Naomi Klein has put it, “Humbling as it may be, our shared climate is the frame inside which all of our lives, causes, and struggles unfold.”24 If it wasn’t apparent before, it should be now: nature is an inescapable force and the foundation for our very being. Pandemics, rising sea levels, melting ice caps, and escalating surface temperatures show that we are all in this together: one species, one planet.

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The companies trumpet their powerful machine learning and artificial intelligence systems, but their enterprises are “actually held together by tens of millions of anonymous workers tucked away in warehouses, data centres, content-moderation mills, electronic sweatshops, [and] lithium mines … where they are left unprotected from disease and hyper-exploitation,” as author Naomi Klein so aptly summarized.392 The ecosystem has spawned a bewildering variety of invasive species that thrive by feeding on the continuously expanding pools of data that spew forth each millisecond of every day: app developers, data brokers, location trackers, data fusion companies, artificial intelligence start-ups, and private intelligence firms.

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The rise of individualism … and nationalism: Anderson, B. (1983). Imagined communities: Reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism. Verso; Deibert, R. (2000). Parchment, printing, and hypermedia: Communication and world order transformation. Columbia University Press; McLuhan, M. (1963). The Gutenberg galaxy. University of Toronto Press. As … Naomi Klein has put it: Klein, N. (2019, August 21). Why the Democratic National Committee must change the rules and hold a climate debate. Retrieved from https://theintercept.com/2019/08/21/climate-debate-dnc/ Chapter One: The Market for Our Minds Initial coverage of the PRISM program: Greenwald, G., & MacAskill, E. (2013, June 7).

The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era by Gary Gerstle

2021 United States Capitol attack, A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace, affirmative action, Affordable Care Act / Obamacare, air traffic controllers' union, Airbnb, Alan Greenspan, Alvin Toffler, anti-communist, AOL-Time Warner, Bear Stearns, behavioural economics, Bernie Sanders, Big Tech, Black Lives Matter, blue-collar work, borderless world, Boris Johnson, Brexit referendum, British Empire, Broken windows theory, business cycle, Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty, Cass Sunstein, collective bargaining, Cornelius Vanderbilt, coronavirus, COVID-19, creative destruction, crony capitalism, cuban missile crisis, David Brooks, David Graeber, death from overwork, defund the police, deindustrialization, democratizing finance, Deng Xiaoping, desegregation, Dissolution of the Soviet Union, Donald Trump, Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, European colonialism, Ferguson, Missouri, financial deregulation, financial engineering, Francis Fukuyama: the end of history, Frederick Winslow Taylor, full employment, future of work, Future Shock, George Floyd, George Gilder, gig economy, Glass-Steagall Act, global supply chain, green new deal, Greenspan put, guns versus butter model, Haight Ashbury, Henry Ford's grandson gave labor union leader Walter Reuther a tour of the company’s new, automated factory…, Ida Tarbell, immigration reform, informal economy, invention of the printing press, invisible hand, It's morning again in America, Jeff Bezos, John Perry Barlow, Kevin Kelly, Kitchen Debate, low interest rates, Lyft, manufacturing employment, market fundamentalism, Martin Wolf, mass incarceration, Menlo Park, microaggression, Mikhail Gorbachev, military-industrial complex, millennium bug, Modern Monetary Theory, money market fund, Mont Pelerin Society, mortgage debt, mutually assured destruction, Naomi Klein, neoliberal agenda, new economy, New Journalism, Northern Rock, obamacare, Occupy movement, oil shock, open borders, Peter Thiel, Philip Mirowski, Powell Memorandum, precariat, price stability, public intellectual, Ralph Nader, Robert Bork, Ronald Reagan, scientific management, Seymour Hersh, sharing economy, Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley ideology, Silicon Valley startup, social distancing, Steve Bannon, Steve Jobs, Stewart Brand, Strategic Defense Initiative, super pumped, technoutopianism, Telecommunications Act of 1996, The Bell Curve by Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray, The Chicago School, The Rise and Fall of American Growth, The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, Thomas L Friedman, too big to fail, Uber and Lyft, uber lyft, union organizing, urban decay, urban renewal, War on Poverty, Washington Consensus, We are all Keynesians now, We are the 99%, white flight, Whole Earth Catalog, WikiLeaks, women in the workforce, Works Progress Administration, Y2K, Yom Kippur War

If Hussein had engaged in crony socialism, the Americans were engaging in crony capitalism. None of this was lost on the Iraqis themselves, now reduced to unemployed bystanders in the Iraq rebuilding charade. No wonder many began contemplating using their remaining resources to join an insurgency against the American occupiers and their armies of private contractors. Naomi Klein, in her book The Shock Doctrine, portrays the course of events in Iraq as flowing directly from neoliberal principles cooked up in University of Chicago economics seminars and straightforwardly applied in this unfortunate Arab country. “The ‘fiasco’ of Iraq,” she writes, “is one created by a careful and faithful application of unrestrained Chicago School ideology.”24 But this is too simple a diagnosis.

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Across the next five years, left-leaning intellectuals and politicians acquired an influence on American politics that they had not enjoyed since the heyday of the New Deal order in the 1930s and 1940s.59 The leftist moment that Occupy inaugurated was marked by the flourishing of the so-called little magazines of the left, old (Dissent) and new (n + 1 and Jacobin), full of ideas about how to build radically different futures; by dramatic growth in the membership of the Democratic Socialists of America; by the popularity of books like Capital to the Twenty-First Century, an 800-page tome on inequality published by French economist Thomas Piketty in 2013 that sold approximately 3 million hardcover copies in the United States and beyond; by the soaring reputations of left-leaning writer-activists (and anti-neoliberal crusaders) Naomi Klein, Noam Chomsky, and David Graeber; and by the sudden appearance in electoral politics of individuals who made a critique of free market capitalism—and the concentration of wealth and power that went with it—their signature message. Elizabeth Warren won election as a US senator from Massachusetts in 2012 by making attacks on the dominance and irresponsibility of America’s mega-banks the centerpiece of her campaign.

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Rodgers, Age of Fracture (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011). 10.Burgin, The Great Persuasion; Slobodian, Globalists; Harvey, A Brief History of Neoliberalism; Offner, Sorting Out the Mixed Economy. See also Noam Chomsky, Profit over People: Neoliberalism and the Global Order (New York: Seven Stories Press, 1999); Naomi Klein, Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (New York: Picador, 2008); Daniel Stedman Jones, Masters of the Universe: Hayek, Friedman, and the Birth of Neoliberal Politics (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2012). 11.This view is one that Eric Hobsbawm long advanced. See Hobsbawm, The Age of Extremes: A History of the World, 1914–1991 (New York: Vintage Books, 1994).

In Defense of Global Capitalism by Johan Norberg

anti-globalists, Asian financial crisis, capital controls, clean water, correlation does not imply causation, creative destruction, Deng Xiaoping, Edward Glaeser, export processing zone, Gini coefficient, Great Leap Forward, half of the world's population has never made a phone call, Hernando de Soto, illegal immigration, income inequality, income per capita, informal economy, James Carville said: "I would like to be reincarnated as the bond market. You can intimidate everybody.", Joseph Schumpeter, Kenneth Rogoff, land reform, Lao Tzu, liberal capitalism, market fundamentalism, Mexican peso crisis / tequila crisis, Naomi Klein, new economy, open economy, prediction markets, profit motive, race to the bottom, rising living standards, Silicon Valley, Simon Kuznets, structural adjustment programs, The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, Tobin tax, trade liberalization, trade route, transaction costs, trickle-down economics, Tyler Cowen, union organizing, zero-sum game

There are indeed abuses and scandals in some quarters, and resolute action is needed to prohibit them. Mostly, abuse and scandal happen in poor dictatorships, and so, instead of freedom having ‘‘gone too far,’’ it has not gained a foothold. In her book No Logo, which quickly became popular in anticapitalist circles, Canadian activist Naomi Klein claims that Western companies have created terrible working conditions in such zones. But she does not offer any proof. She has only heard a few rumors of bad conditions in one Philippine export-processing zone, which she admits having traveled to only because it was one of the worst. When the OECD tried to obtain an overall picture of these zones, it found that they had multiplied job opportunities for the poor, and that wages there were higher than in the rest of the country.

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The presence of multinational corporations in oppressive governments can very often be an aid to the pursuit of democracy, because those corporations are sensitive to pressure from Western consumers, which has a direct impact on sales. It can be easier to influence Nigerian politics by boycotting Shell than by trying to bring pressure to bear on the Nigerian government. This is hinted at in the subtitle of Naomi Klein’s book No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies. Klein points out that the big corporations have tried to create a special positive aura for their trademarks through many decades of advertising and goodwill. But by doing so they have also shot themselves in the foot. The trademarks, being their biggest asset, are hugely sensitive to adverse publicity.

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‘‘Foreign Friends,’’ The Economist, January 8, 2000. Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, Survey of OECD Work on International Investment, Working Paper on International Investment (Paris: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, 1998), http://www.oecd.org/pdf/M000013000/M00013315.pdf. 16. Naomi Klein, No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies (New York: Picador USA, 2000). Klein finds it repugnant that firms exploit people’s need to belong, to share in a group identity. But if this is a basic need, then surely it is a good thing that an identity should be freely chosen from among a range of options, rather than merely inherited.

Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism by Harsha Walia

anti-communist, antiwork, Berlin Wall, Bernie Sanders, Black Lives Matter, blood diamond, borderless world, Boris Johnson, Brexit referendum, British Empire, California gold rush, clean water, climate change refugee, collective bargaining, colonial rule, contact tracing, coronavirus, COVID-19, crack epidemic, dark matter, decarbonisation, deindustrialization, Donald Trump, drone strike, Elon Musk, European colonialism, eurozone crisis, export processing zone, extractivism, fake news, Fall of the Berlin Wall, Food sovereignty, G4S, gentrification, George Floyd, global pandemic, global supply chain, Global Witness, green new deal, guest worker program, illegal immigration, immigration reform, income inequality, informal economy, Jeff Bezos, Jeremy Corbyn, joint-stock company, land reform, late capitalism, lockdown, mandatory minimum, mass immigration, mass incarceration, means of production, microcredit, military-industrial complex, Monroe Doctrine, moral panic, Naomi Klein, neoliberal agenda, Occupy movement, ocean acidification, oil shale / tar sands, open borders, pension reform, Rana Plaza, Richard Florida, Ronald Reagan, Shoshana Zuboff, social distancing, special economic zone, Steve Bannon, strikebreaker, structural adjustment programs, surveillance capitalism, trade liberalization, transatlantic slave trade, transcontinental railway, union organizing, upwardly mobile, urban planning, W. E. B. Du Bois, wages for housework, Washington Consensus, women in the workforce

Praise for Border and Rule “In Walia’s expert hands, the planet’s sprawling borderlands are exposed as capitalism’s gaping wounds, filled with escalating terror and torment as whiteness ferociously seeks to defend its imagined boundaries. This is a book of unsparing truth and dazzling ambition, providing readers with desperately needed intellectual ammunition to confront the inherent violence of borders. An enormous contribution to our movements.” —Naomi Klein, author of On Fire “I was haunted and agitated by this book which is part exposé and part clarion call for radical action. Harsha Walia offers an unsparing analysis of the violences of forced migration, borders, imperialism, and capitalism. The case studies presented in this book weave a quilt that provides us with needed knowledge to confront current problems that demand an organized collective response.

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Thank you to Anthony Arnove, Ashley Smith, Róisín Davis, Jim Plank, Charlotte Heltai, Ida Audeh, and everyone on the team who believed in this book. Nisha Bolsey, in particular, responded to all my rookie questions about publishing, and her warm encouragement despite my lack of academic or institutional affiliation, and generous flexibility with timelines and word counts, were pivotal in this book coming to fruition. Compañera Naomi Klein also offered invaluable guidance and advice. I am utterly thrilled and humbled that the genius of Robin Kelley, whose prolific scholarly work and uncompromising political commitment has been one of my foremost inspirations, is part of this book, and that Nick Estes, one of our generation’s most politically grounded and profound thinkers in this corner of the world, has offered an afterword.

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The IMF is a predatory loan shark forcing conditions of market liberalization and state austerity as preconditions to receiving a loan, and using debt as a disciplinary mechanism to reorganize economies into bordered sites of resource extraction and labor exploitation. The neoliberal and neocolonial imposition of these structural adjustment programs became known as “debt dictatorship,” with developing economies forced to accept severe austerity packages that stripped away social safety measures while increasing capitalist investment and trade tariffs. Naomi Klein summarizes this prescription of the Washington Consensus as “Want to save your country? Sell it off.”10 For the more than seventy countries across the Global South and former Eastern bloc trapped in these neoliberal programs, structural adjustment has been synonymous with increased interest rates, currency devaluation, elimination of state subsidies for domestic industries and essential services, deregulation, export-oriented markets, and swelling poverty rates.11 A mantra of neoliberal deregulation is the privatization of profit and socialization of risk.

Chokepoint Capitalism by Rebecca Giblin, Cory Doctorow

Aaron Swartz, AltaVista, barriers to entry, Berlin Wall, Bernie Sanders, Big Tech, big-box store, Black Lives Matter, book value, collective bargaining, commoditize, coronavirus, corporate personhood, corporate raider, COVID-19, disintermediation, distributed generation, Fairchild Semiconductor, fake news, Filter Bubble, financial engineering, Firefox, forensic accounting, full employment, gender pay gap, George Akerlof, George Floyd, gig economy, Golden age of television, Google bus, greed is good, green new deal, high-speed rail, Hush-A-Phone, independent contractor, index fund, information asymmetry, Jeff Bezos, John Gruber, Kickstarter, laissez-faire capitalism, low interest rates, Lyft, Mark Zuckerberg, means of production, microplastics / micro fibres, Modern Monetary Theory, moral hazard, multi-sided market, Naomi Klein, Network effects, New Journalism, passive income, peak TV, Peter Thiel, precision agriculture, regulatory arbitrage, remote working, rent-seeking, ride hailing / ride sharing, Robert Bork, Saturday Night Live, shareholder value, sharing economy, Silicon Valley, SoftBank, sovereign wealth fund, Steve Jobs, Steven Levy, stock buybacks, surveillance capitalism, Susan Wojcicki, tech bro, tech worker, The Chicago School, The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, TikTok, time value of money, transaction costs, trickle-down economics, Turing complete, Uber and Lyft, uber lyft, union organizing, Vanguard fund, vertical integration, WeWork

When Friedman’s acolytes bemoaned the impossibility of their task and the irrelevance of their movement, he would comfort them by reminding them that their mission was to create “ideas lying around” that could be picked up and pressed into service when a crisis arose.13 There will always be crises: even the best-run society is subject to exogenous shocks—pandemics, extreme weather, earthquakes, invasions. When crisis strikes, the order crumbles, and in a flash, ideas lying around can move from the fringe to the center. Naomi Klein calls this idea “the shock doctrine” and describes it as “one of Friedman’s most lasting strategic legacies.”14 Monopolists and monopsonists create their own crises as they extract ever more profit and opportunity, which they predictably wield to make things ever better for themselves, until there’s not enough left for everyone else.

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If we leave their funding entirely to the market, eventually they’ll no longer be possible, and important parts of human culture will be lost. A job guarantee for creative workers could help prevent that. There’s precedent for this: the US successfully responded to the Great Depression in the 1930s by creating millions of public jobs as part of Roosevelt’s New Deal. As Naomi Klein explains, this included meaningful work for “tens of thousands of painters, musicians, photographers, playwrights, filmmakers, actors, authors, and a huge array of craftspeople,” generating “an explosion of creativity and a staggering body of work,” including live music performances that reached 150 million people.27 A job guarantee would mean that the day you lose your employment you could pick up a new, dignified job—including whatever training that requires—until someone in the private sector decides to offer you a better one.

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Gabriel Winant, “No Going Back: the Power and Limits of the Anti-Monopolist Tradition,” Nation, Jan. 21, 2021, https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/goliath-monopoly-and-democracy-matt-stoller-review. 12. Carstensen, Competition Policy and the Control of Buyer Power, 139. 13. Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1962). 14. Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (New York: Knopf, 2007), 7. 15. Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, 558 US 310 (2010). CHAPTER 13: TRANSPARENCY RIGHTS 1. Interview with Susan May, 2021. 2. Interview with Susan May, 2021. 3. The original post has been deleted but is archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20200921135114/https://www.yaplex.com/blog/how-to-rent-books-with-audible. 4.

Disaster Capitalism: Making a Killing Out of Catastrophe by Antony Loewenstein

"World Economic Forum" Davos, activist fund / activist shareholder / activist investor, Affordable Care Act / Obamacare, American Legislative Exchange Council, anti-communist, Asian financial crisis, benefit corporation, British Empire, business logic, Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty, Chelsea Manning, clean water, collective bargaining, colonial rule, corporate social responsibility, Corrections Corporation of America, do well by doing good, Edward Snowden, facts on the ground, failed state, falling living standards, Ferguson, Missouri, financial independence, full employment, G4S, Goldman Sachs: Vampire Squid, housing crisis, illegal immigration, immigration reform, income inequality, Julian Assange, Kickstarter, Leo Hollis, mandatory minimum, market fundamentalism, mass incarceration, Naomi Klein, neoliberal agenda, obamacare, Occupy movement, offshore financial centre, open borders, private military company, profit motive, Ralph Nader, Ronald Reagan, Russell Brand, Satyajit Das, Scramble for Africa, Slavoj Žižek, stem cell, the medium is the message, trade liberalization, vertical integration, WikiLeaks, work culture

“This is the only civilized solution,” he told the Observer newspaper.13 In 2014, even the world’s leading economic think-tank, the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, urged higher taxes for the rich to help the bottom 40 percent of the population. When establishment magazine Foreign Policy publishes an article by the US managing editor of the Financial Times, Gillian Tett, which closes expressing a wish for an “honest debate” about “wealth redistribution,” it is clear that the world has gone a little mad.14 Canadian journalist Naomi Klein coined the term “disaster capitalism” in her best-selling 2007 book, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, in which she observes that privatization, government deregulation, and deep cuts to social spending are often imposed after megadisasters, man-made or natural, “all before victims of war or natural disaster [are] able to regroup and stake their claims to what [is] theirs.”

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Industries such as mining, construction, and security feed off each other. It is a global gravy train—when one country is sucked dry, it moves off to the next lucrative destination. During a visit to Greece in 2013 to investigate the reality of extreme austerity and those workers resisting it, Canadian writer Naomi Klein issued a stark warning: “We really are in a midst of what I’ve come to think of as a final colonial pillage for the hardest to reach natural resources in some of the most beautiful protected parts of the world using some of the most dangerous and damaging extractive practices.”3 Nothing remains untouched.

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Louise Adler, Elisa Berg, Sally Heath, Paul Smitz, and Penelope White have all contributed hugely to the vision in your hands. I continue to be inspired by a range of journalists and groups whose work informs my own: Julian Assange and WikiLeaks, Pratap Chatterjee, Glenn Greenwald, Amy Goodman, the late and great Michael Hastings, Naomi Klein, Dahr Jamail, Chelsea Manning, George Monbiot, Greg Palast, John Pilger, Jeremy Scahill, Edward Snowden, and Matt Taibbi. Alison Martin is a truly unique woman who constantly challenges, provokes, and loves me. Her intelligence, insights, and warmth run through this book. Our life journey together is one of the best damn things to ever happen to me.

Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression – and the Unexpected Solutions by Johann Hari

Adam Curtis, autism spectrum disorder, basic income, Berlin Wall, call centre, capitalist realism, correlation does not imply causation, Donald Trump, gig economy, income inequality, Jeff Bezos, John Snow's cholera map, Joi Ito, longitudinal study, meta-analysis, Naomi Klein, Occupy movement, open borders, placebo effect, precariat, publication bias, randomized controlled trial, Rat Park, risk tolerance, Ronald Reagan, Rutger Bregman, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI), Stephen Fry, sugar pill, TED Talk, the scientific method, The Spirit Level, Tipper Gore, twin studies, universal basic income, urban planning, zero-sum game

More Praise for Lost Connections ‘Wise, probing and deeply generous, Hari has produced a book packed with explosive revelations about our epidemic of despair. Yes, it is about depression but it is also about the way we live now – and the havoc perennial isolation is wrecking on our collective mental health and general wellbeing’ NAOMI KLEIN ‘An important, convention-challenging, provocative and supremely timely read. It is about time we looked at mental health through the prism of society rather than, simply, medicine. This brilliant book helps us do that’ MATT HAIG ‘A beautiful book from the person that brilliantly once said “the opposite of addiction is connection” and who now explores and offers some solutions to our disconnection’ JEMIMA KHAN ‘This is one of those extraordinary books that you want all your friends to read immediately – because the shift in world-view is so compelling and dramatic that you wonder how you’ll be able to have conversations with them otherwise.

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To be kept up to date on new developments in depression and anxiety, you can (a) Follow this book’s Facebook page: www.facebook.com/thelostconnections (b) Follow Johann on Twitter: www.twitter.com/johannhari101 (c) Sign up to receive occasional e-mail updates at www.thelostconnections.com/updates Acknowledgments You can’t write a book like this without being helped by a huge number of people. I want to thank first of all Eve Ensler, who is not just an extraordinary friend and the best person to explore ideas with that you could hope for, but an inspiration for how to fight against injustice with joy rather than rage. In the same vein, I thank my friend Naomi Klein, who is the greatest model I know for how to think deeply about complex questions without diluting or betraying their complexity. The people I owe the greatest debt to, when it comes to this book, are the social scientists who conducted the research on which it is based, and who patiently answered all my questions and endless requests to see if I had really understood what they were saying.

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Mark Fisher talks about this interestingly in his excellent book Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (Winchester, UK: O Books, 2009)—see pp. 18–20. You have to turn now to all the other wounded people around you, and find a way to connect with them This idea—that we need to come home—was influenced by Naomi Klein’s writing in This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate (London: Penguin, 2015), and Avi Lewis’s film of the same name. 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The Coke Machine: The Dirty Truth Behind the World's Favorite Soft Drink by Michael Blanding

"World Economic Forum" Davos, An Inconvenient Truth, carbon footprint, classic study, clean water, collective bargaining, corporate social responsibility, Exxon Valdez, Gordon Gekko, Internet Archive, laissez-faire capitalism, market design, military-industrial complex, MITM: man-in-the-middle, Naomi Klein, Nelson Mandela, New Journalism, Pepsi Challenge, Ponzi scheme, profit motive, Ralph Nader, rolodex, Ronald Reagan, shareholder value, stock buybacks, The Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen, The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, Thorstein Veblen, union organizing, Upton Sinclair, Wayback Machine

“It’s one thing when your stock drops 10 percent because of a mistake your company has made . . . but it’s something else . . . when it drops because of a business with totally different financial and social dy­ namics.” For the next four hours, he patiently explained why people might not pay for a Marlboro but they would pay for a Coke. And he was right. Coke’s stock righted itself in a few weeks. As Naomi Klein recounts in her book No Logo, the real lesson of “Marl­ boro Friday” was that companies needed to invest more money in brand­ ing, not less. The companies that succeeded after the recession of the early 1990s were those that wrapped consumers in their products, creating not just an association with their product but a complete lifestyle—think Star­ bucks, Disney, Apple, Calvin Klein, and Nike.

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Page 69 more than $4 billion in net income: Associated Press, “Coke CEO Aims at 2B Serv­ ings Daily,” March 3, 1998. Page 69 3,500 percent increase . . . $88 a share by 1998: Dean Foust, “Coke’s Man on the Spot,” BusinessWeek, May 3, 1999. Page 69 “We don’t know how”: Morris, “Roberto Goizueta and Jack Welch: The Wealth Builders.” Page 69 Coke’s annual spending on advertising: Naomi Klein, No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies (New York: Picador, 1999), 471. Page 69 alienating many: Hays, 123–124; Pendergrast, 400. NOTES 3 10 Page 69 “move the needle”: Zyman, 3–5, 118, 172. Page 69 “The sole purpose of marketing”: Zyman, 11. Page 69 “spending to sell” . . . “we poured on more”: Zyman, 15.

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Page 69 The domestic ad budget rose: Klein, No Logo, 471. Page 70 It was Zyman’s job: Zyman, 138. Page 70 “These are the consumers”: Zyman, 125. Page 70 “dimensionalizing” . . . at every occasion: Zyman, 124, 129. Page 70 compete for Coke’s vast advertising war chest: Zyman, 207. Page 71 Hollywood powerhouse Creative Artists Agency: Naomi Klein, No Logo, 59. Page 71 computer-generated family of polar bears: Matthew Grimm, “Coke Plans to Put Its Polar Bears to Work,” Adweek, June 21, 1993; Dottie Enrico, “Coke’s Polar Bear Is a Papa Bear,” USA Today, December 8, 1994. Page 71 Philip Morris cut the price . . . death knell for the brand: Klein, No Logo, 12–13.

Life Inc.: How the World Became a Corporation and How to Take It Back by Douglas Rushkoff

Abraham Maslow, Adam Curtis, addicted to oil, affirmative action, Alan Greenspan, Amazon Mechanical Turk, An Inconvenient Truth, anti-globalists, AOL-Time Warner, banks create money, Bear Stearns, benefit corporation, big-box store, Bretton Woods, car-free, Charles Lindbergh, colonial exploitation, Community Supported Agriculture, complexity theory, computer age, congestion pricing, corporate governance, credit crunch, currency manipulation / currency intervention, David Ricardo: comparative advantage, death of newspapers, digital divide, don't be evil, Donald Trump, double entry bookkeeping, easy for humans, difficult for computers, financial innovation, Firefox, full employment, General Motors Futurama, gentrification, Glass-Steagall Act, global village, Google Earth, greed is good, Herbert Marcuse, Howard Rheingold, income per capita, invention of the printing press, invisible hand, Jane Jacobs, John Nash: game theory, joint-stock company, Kevin Kelly, Kickstarter, laissez-faire capitalism, loss aversion, market bubble, market design, Marshall McLuhan, Milgram experiment, military-industrial complex, moral hazard, multilevel marketing, mutually assured destruction, Naomi Klein, negative equity, new economy, New Urbanism, Norbert Wiener, peak oil, peer-to-peer, place-making, placebo effect, planned obsolescence, Ponzi scheme, price mechanism, price stability, principal–agent problem, private military company, profit maximization, profit motive, prosperity theology / prosperity gospel / gospel of success, public intellectual, race to the bottom, RAND corporation, rent-seeking, RFID, road to serfdom, Ronald Reagan, scientific management, short selling, Silicon Valley, Simon Kuznets, social software, Steve Jobs, Telecommunications Act of 1996, telemarketer, The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, Thomas L Friedman, too big to fail, trade route, trickle-down economics, union organizing, urban decay, urban planning, urban renewal, Vannevar Bush, vertical integration, Victor Gruen, white flight, working poor, Works Progress Administration, Y2K, young professional, zero-sum game

The more expensive war gets, the less is available for social services and infrastructure at home. The poorer people get, the more easily they can be persuaded that foreign enemies greedy for oil profits and obsessed with religious violence are the real problem. The daily toll of bodies begins to feel less relevant than the escalating price at the pump. As Naomi Klein amply demonstrated in her book on the extension of war profiteering to other industries, Disaster Capitalism, human life is no longer even a valid component of the global business plan. It’s not really part of the equation. While privatized war provides direct evidence of the way market forces working within particular institutional structures can end up promoting conflict, with all the human and material waste that this implies, Klein sees the same essential dynamic at play elsewhere.

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In the face of all this, the hippest way out is to adopt the attitude of amused and quizzical cynicism worn by Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart. Besides, no matter how critical of corporatism some entertainers and journalists might be, the impact of their arguments is undercut by their dependence on corporatized media for dissemination. Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart work for Viacom. Naomi Klein writes for a division of the German publisher Verlagsgruppe, and this book is published by a subsidiary of Bertelsmann. We all have mortgages to pay. Even most progressive journalism—just like the kind that emerged in the early 1900s—tends to frighten and isolate the middle classes rather than bring them out of their homes to improve their communities.

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Ari Wallach Felipe Ribeiro Andrew Mayer Fernando Cervantes Bernard Lietaer Armanda Lewis Howard Rheingold David Pescovitz John Merryman Jonathan Taylor Propaganda Lance Strate John Leland John Rogers Darren Sharp Jules Marshall Amy Sohn Christina Amini Jason Liszkiewicz Jeff Newelt Kevin Werbach Xeni Jardin Timothy Mohn Anaid Gomez-Ortigoza Matthew Burton Max Brockman Josh Klein Russel Weinberger Jeff Gordiner Helen Churko Getachew Mengistie Courtney Turco Justin Vogt Joost Raessens Nancy Hechinger Rachel Dretzen Benjamin Kirshbaum Barak Goodman Ken Miller Naomi Klein David Feuer Kate Norris and, most of all, Barbara and Mamie Rushkoff NOTES CHAPTER ONE Once Removed: The Corporate Life-Form 4 Most history books recount For the best descriptions of late Middle Ages and Renaissance life and commerce, see Fernand Braudel, The Wheels of Commerce: Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century (Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1992), and Carlo M.

The Unknowers: How Strategic Ignorance Rules the World by Linsey McGoey

Alan Greenspan, An Inconvenient Truth, anti-globalists, antiwork, battle of ideas, behavioural economics, Big Tech, Black Lives Matter, Branko Milanovic, British Empire, Cambridge Analytica, carbon tax, Cass Sunstein, Clive Stafford Smith, conceptual framework, Corn Laws, corporate governance, corporate raider, Credit Default Swap, David Ricardo: comparative advantage, Donald Trump, drone strike, en.wikipedia.org, European colonialism, fake news, Frances Oldham Kelsey, hiring and firing, Howard Zinn, income inequality, it is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it, joint-stock company, junk bonds, knowledge economy, market fundamentalism, mass incarceration, Michael Milken, minimum wage unemployment, Naomi Klein, new economy, Nick Leeson, p-value, Paul Samuelson, Peter Thiel, plutocrats, post-truth, public intellectual, race to the bottom, randomized controlled trial, rent-seeking, road to serfdom, Robert Mercer, Ronald Reagan, Scientific racism, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI), Social Justice Warrior, Steven Pinker, Suez crisis 1956, The Chicago School, The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, union organizing, Upton Sinclair, W. E. B. Du Bois, Washington Consensus, wealth creators

Rather, he highlighted the problem of profiteering and called for government action to make markets fair by holding merchants accountable for fraud and pillaging. He was a fierce critic of unregulated profiteering, just as influential voices on the left and the right today, from Naomi Klein to Andrew Bacevich, raise questions over corporate profiteering in war zones and elsewhere.20 Readers may doubt this (Naomi Klein and Adam Smith in the same breath?) but Smith’s argument is accessible to read in Wealth of Nations. Smith’s call for better government regulation largely failed in his lifetime, but gradually checks on corporate entitlements and laws against monopoly privileges helped to rein in some aspects of rent-seeking behaviour that Smith identified.

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‘Dianne Feinstein’s outrageous underestimate of civilian drone deaths’ (The Atlantic, February 11); E. Schweiger, 2015. ‘The risks of remaining silent: International law formation and the EU silence on drone killings.’ Global Affairs 1(3): 269–275. 16 Civilian death tolls are notoriously hard to determine in most wars, something that can contribute to ‘official forgetting,’ Naomi Klein’s term for strategies that obfuscate government wrongs. See No Is Not Enough: Defeating the New Shock Politics (London: Penguin, 2017), 195. See also Brian Rappert, How to Look Good in War (London: Pluto Press, 2012). 17 C. Crain, 2016. ‘The case against democracy’ (The New Yorker, November 7). 18 J.

Power Systems: Conversations on Global Democratic Uprisings and the New Challenges to U.S. Empire by Noam Chomsky, David Barsamian

"World Economic Forum" Davos, affirmative action, Affordable Care Act / Obamacare, Albert Einstein, American ideology, Chelsea Manning, collective bargaining, colonial rule, corporate personhood, David Brooks, discovery of DNA, double helix, drone strike, failed state, Great Leap Forward, Herbert Marcuse, high-speed rail, Howard Zinn, hydraulic fracturing, income inequality, inflation targeting, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Julian Assange, land reform, language acquisition, Martin Wolf, Mohammed Bouazizi, Naomi Klein, Nelson Mandela, new economy, no-fly zone, obamacare, Occupy movement, oil shale / tar sands, pattern recognition, Powell Memorandum, public intellectual, quantitative easing, Ralph Nader, Ralph Waldo Emerson, single-payer health, sovereign wealth fund, The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, theory of mind, Tobin tax, union organizing, Upton Sinclair, uranium enrichment, WikiLeaks

I’m sure the people who write such articles have read the same climate change reports I have and take them seriously. But their institutional role makes such positions a social or cultural necessity. They could make different decisions, but that would require real rethinking of the nature of our institutions. The propaganda barrage has been effective. As Naomi Klein writes in the Nation, “A 2007 Harris poll found that 71 percent of Americans believed that the continued burning of fossil fuels would cause the climate to change. By 2009 the figure had dropped to 51 percent. In June 2011 the number of Americans who agreed was down to 44 percent—well under half the population.

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See also Andrew Revkin, “High Odds of Hot Times,” New York Times, Dot Earth blog, 20 May 2009. See also David Chandler, “Climate Change Odds Much Worse than Thought,” MIT News, 19 May 2009. 32. Edward Luce, “America Is Entering a New Age of Plenty,” Financial Times (London), 20 November 2011. 33. Naomi Klein, “Capitalism vs. the Climate,” Nation, 28 November 2011. 34. Clifford Krauss and Jad Mouawad, “Oil Industry Backs Protests of Emissions Bill,” New York Times, 18 August 2009. 35. Davis Asman, Interview with Ron Paul, Fox Business, 4 November 2009. 7. Learning How to Discover 1. William James, The Principles of Psychology, vol. 1 (New York: Henry Holt, 1918), p. 488. 2.

Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out? by Bill McKibben

"Hurricane Katrina" Superdome, 23andMe, Affordable Care Act / Obamacare, Airbnb, Alan Greenspan, American Legislative Exchange Council, An Inconvenient Truth, Anne Wojcicki, Anthropocene, Apollo 11, artificial general intelligence, Bernie Sanders, Bill Joy: nanobots, biodiversity loss, Burning Man, call centre, Cambridge Analytica, carbon footprint, carbon tax, Charles Lindbergh, clean water, Colonization of Mars, computer vision, CRISPR, David Attenborough, deep learning, DeepMind, degrowth, disinformation, Donald Trump, double helix, driverless car, Easter island, Edward Snowden, Elon Musk, ending welfare as we know it, energy transition, Extinction Rebellion, Flynn Effect, gigafactory, Google Earth, Great Leap Forward, green new deal, Greta Thunberg, Hyperloop, impulse control, income inequality, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), James Bridle, Jane Jacobs, Jaron Lanier, Jeff Bezos, job automation, Kim Stanley Robinson, life extension, light touch regulation, Mark Zuckerberg, mass immigration, megacity, Menlo Park, moral hazard, Naomi Klein, Neil Armstrong, Nelson Mandela, Nick Bostrom, obamacare, ocean acidification, off grid, oil shale / tar sands, paperclip maximiser, Paris climate accords, pattern recognition, Peter Thiel, plutocrats, profit motive, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ray Kurzweil, Robert Mercer, Ronald Reagan, Sam Altman, San Francisco homelessness, self-driving car, Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley startup, smart meter, Snapchat, stem cell, Stephen Hawking, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, Steven Pinker, strong AI, supervolcano, tech baron, tech billionaire, technoutopianism, TED Talk, The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, traffic fines, Tragedy of the Commons, Travis Kalanick, Tyler Cowen, urban sprawl, Virgin Galactic, Watson beat the top human players on Jeopardy!, Y Combinator, Y2K, yield curve

We need to speed up that rhythm, and done right, the fight against inequality meshes powerfully with the fight against more existential threats such as climate change. That’s why, at 350.org, we talk a great deal about “climate justice,” convinced that it’s both right and smart to work most closely with communities on the front lines of environmental damage. It’s why we’re excited by efforts such as the Poor People’s Campaign, or the Leap Manifesto that Naomi Klein produced with an assortment of labor unions and indigenous people. It’s all the same struggle. But for this book, the rapid rise in poverty and inequality will primarily serve as a marker of who we are right now and how we got here; what we care about; how we understand the world. And for those purposes, the most important part of this “we” is the people in power, either formal or informal, who have allowed this poverty and inequality to shoot up over the last four decades.

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(In Oklahoma, trespassing near “critical infrastructure facilities” now can get you ten years in prison.)4 The same is true around the world, from Duterte’s Philippines to Erdogan’s Turkey to Maduro’s Venezuela to Putin’s Russia, where protest is often lethal. But the oligarchs face a fight at every turn. As Naomi Klein has said, if we can’t get a serious carbon tax from a corrupted Congress, we can impose a de facto one with our bodies. And in so doing, we buy time for the renewables industry to expand—maybe even fast enough to catch up a little with the physics of global warming. I recount all this not to boast—as I say, we’re not winning, and in any event, I’m not much of a leader.

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I spend the most time with my colleagues at 350.org, of course, and it has been a great privilege to watch the young people who launched it grow into full adulthood—the weddings, and the birth announcements, are happy days on the calendar every year. To work with people whom one loves and admires is a great privilege. Day to day, my ace colleague Vanessa Arcara keeps me going. Naomi Klein, Jane Mayer, and Rebecca Solnit read this book in draft form; each of them has been instrumental in shaping my thinking over the years, and the world owes them great thanks for their reporting and writing. Marcy Darnovsky also brought her sharp eye to bear on the chapters about genetic engineering, for which I am very grateful.

Barefoot Into Cyberspace: Adventures in Search of Techno-Utopia by Becky Hogge, Damien Morris, Christopher Scally

"World Economic Forum" Davos, A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace, back-to-the-land, Berlin Wall, Buckminster Fuller, Chelsea Manning, citizen journalism, cloud computing, corporate social responsibility, disintermediation, DIY culture, Douglas Engelbart, Douglas Engelbart, Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Evgeny Morozov, Fall of the Berlin Wall, game design, Hacker Conference 1984, Hacker Ethic, Hans Moravec, informal economy, information asymmetry, Jacob Appelbaum, jimmy wales, John Gilmore, John Markoff, John Perry Barlow, Julian Assange, Kevin Kelly, mass immigration, Menlo Park, military-industrial complex, Mitch Kapor, MITM: man-in-the-middle, moral panic, Mother of all demos, Naomi Klein, Nelson Mandela, Network effects, New Journalism, Norbert Wiener, off-the-grid, peer-to-peer, Richard Stallman, Silicon Valley, Skype, Socratic dialogue, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, Steven Levy, Stewart Brand, systems thinking, technoutopianism, Telecommunications Act of 1996, The Hackers Conference, Vannevar Bush, Whole Earth Catalog, Whole Earth Review, WikiLeaks

It goes unsaid why this might be a good idea – the lightning talk is mostly to pitch the micro-electronics lab Mitch will be running in the basement throughout the congress. But I know why I like it. Every time I visit London there are more TVs. The latest ones coat the walls of the escalator halls in the capital’s most-used underground stations, making me long for the static paper ads I once found so intrusive. Naomi Klein writes about the corporate takeover of “public” space in her best-selling anti-globalisation polemic No Logo. Mitch Altman’s device is the logical (and slightly less risky) extension of the activities of urban guerrillas like Adbusters, who reclaim public space by making midnight alterations to the billboards of major brands in order to turn them into satirical art.

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If what’s interesting about internet freedom is this idea of creating digital public spaces where we can debate whatever issues are relevant. And if what’s exciting about internet freedom is that countries that don’t have conventional public spaces could now have digital public spaces, then we have to recognise, those aren’t public spaces. Those are private spaces; those are corporate-controlled spaces.” * * * In No Logo, Naomi Klein details exactly what’s wrong with the real-world emergence of pseudo-public space in corporate America: The conflation of shopping and entertainment found at the superstores and theme-park malls has created a vast grey area of pseudo-public private space. Politicians, police, social workers and even religious leaders all recognize that malls have become the modern town square.

The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable by Amitav Ghosh

Alfred Russel Wallace, Anthropocene, Berlin Wall, Bernie Sanders, British Empire, carbon footprint, climate fiction, Donald Trump, double helix, Fellow of the Royal Society, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), invisible hand, James Watt: steam engine, Jeremy Corbyn, Mahatma Gandhi, market fundamentalism, megacity, megaproject, Michael Shellenberger, Naomi Klein, non-fiction novel, Ronald Reagan, spinning jenny, Ted Nordhaus, Upton Sinclair, upwardly mobile, urban planning

So if it is the case that the last, but perhaps most intransigent way that climate change resists literary fiction lies ultimately in its resistance to language itself, then it would seem to follow that new, hybrid forms will emerge and the act of reading itself will change once again, as it has many times before. PART II HISTORY 1 In accounts of the history of the present climate crisis, capitalism is very often the pivot on which the narrative turns. I have no quarrel with this: as I see it, Naomi Klein and others are right to identify the currently dominant model of capitalism as one of the principal drivers of climate change. However, I believe that this narrative often overlooks an aspect of global warming that is of equal importance: empire and imperialism. While capitalism and empire are certainly dual aspects of a single reality, the relationship between them is not, and has never been, a simple one: in relation to global warming, I think it is demonstrably the case that the imperatives of capital and empire have often pushed in different directions, sometimes producing counter-intuitive results.

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Howe in ‘This Is Nature; This Is Un-Nature: Reading the Keeling Curve’, Environmental History 20, no. 2 (2015): 286–93, 290. 174 ‘implement their demands’: Ingolfur Blühdorn, ‘Sustaining the Unsustainable: Symbolic Politics and the Politics of Simulation’, Environmental Politics 16, no. 2 (2007): 251–75, 264–65. 174 First World War: Timothy Mitchell, Carbon Democracy, loc. 2998. 175 ‘They only consume’: Roy Scranton, Learning to Die in the Anthropocene: Reflections on the End of a Civilization (San Francisco: City Lights Books, 2015), Kindle edition, loc. 640. 175 ‘legislation and governance’: Ibid. 175 ‘the modern world’: Adam B. Seligman et al., Ritual and Its Consequences, loc. 171. 176 ‘mere representation’: Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle, thesis 1. 176 ‘reestablishes its rule’: Ibid, thesis 18; my italics. 177 ‘moral issue’: Naomi Klein makes a powerful case for enframing climate change as a moral issue in her magisterial This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate (New York: Knopf, 2014). See also the following interview with Michael Mann: http://paulharrisonline.blogspot.in/2015/07/michael-mann-on-climate-change.html. 178 opposite side: I am following here the use of the word sincerity in Adam B.

The Road to Ruin: The Global Elites' Secret Plan for the Next Financial Crisis by James Rickards

"World Economic Forum" Davos, Affordable Care Act / Obamacare, Alan Greenspan, Albert Einstein, asset allocation, asset-backed security, bank run, banking crisis, barriers to entry, Bayesian statistics, Bear Stearns, behavioural economics, Ben Bernanke: helicopter money, Benoit Mandelbrot, Berlin Wall, Bernie Sanders, Big bang: deregulation of the City of London, bitcoin, Black Monday: stock market crash in 1987, Black Swan, blockchain, Boeing 747, Bonfire of the Vanities, Bretton Woods, Brexit referendum, British Empire, business cycle, butterfly effect, buy and hold, capital controls, Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty, Carmen Reinhart, cellular automata, cognitive bias, cognitive dissonance, complexity theory, Corn Laws, corporate governance, creative destruction, Credit Default Swap, cuban missile crisis, currency manipulation / currency intervention, currency peg, currency risk, Daniel Kahneman / Amos Tversky, David Ricardo: comparative advantage, debt deflation, Deng Xiaoping, disintermediation, distributed ledger, diversification, diversified portfolio, driverless car, Edward Lorenz: Chaos theory, Eugene Fama: efficient market hypothesis, failed state, Fall of the Berlin Wall, fiat currency, financial repression, fixed income, Flash crash, floating exchange rates, forward guidance, Fractional reserve banking, G4S, George Akerlof, Glass-Steagall Act, global macro, global reserve currency, high net worth, Hyman Minsky, income inequality, information asymmetry, interest rate swap, Isaac Newton, jitney, John Meriwether, John von Neumann, Joseph Schumpeter, junk bonds, Kenneth Rogoff, labor-force participation, large denomination, liquidity trap, Long Term Capital Management, low interest rates, machine readable, mandelbrot fractal, margin call, market bubble, Mexican peso crisis / tequila crisis, Minsky moment, Money creation, money market fund, mutually assured destruction, Myron Scholes, Naomi Klein, nuclear winter, obamacare, offshore financial centre, operational security, Paul Samuelson, Peace of Westphalia, Phillips curve, Pierre-Simon Laplace, plutocrats, prediction markets, price anchoring, price stability, proprietary trading, public intellectual, quantitative easing, RAND corporation, random walk, reserve currency, RFID, risk free rate, risk-adjusted returns, Robert Solow, Ronald Reagan, Savings and loan crisis, Silicon Valley, sovereign wealth fund, special drawing rights, stock buybacks, stocks for the long run, tech billionaire, The Bell Curve by Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray, The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, The Wisdom of Crowds, theory of mind, Thomas Bayes, Thomas Kuhn: the structure of scientific revolutions, too big to fail, transfer pricing, value at risk, Washington Consensus, We are all Keynesians now, Westphalian system

DocumentID=26851&ArticleID=35480, ix. UN project adviser Andrew Sheng: Xiao Geng and Andrew Sheng, “How to Finance Global Reflation,” Project Syndicate, April 25, 2016, accessed August 7, 2016, www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/sdr-reserve-currency-fight-deflation-by-andrew-sheng-and-xiao-geng-2016-04. Naomi Klein’s 2007 book, The Shock Doctrine: Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (New York: Picador, 2007). Shock doctrine is an ideal tool: Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies: Volume 1, The Spell of Plato, 157–59. the Open Society Foundations: Ibid. CHAPTER 3: DESERT CITY OF THE MIND “Keynes asked me what I was advising”: Somary, The Raven of Zurich, 146–47.

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Information sharing and global cooperation will leave corporations and wealthy individuals without shelter. Coordinated action in the form of global wealth extraction will displace the former practice of sovereign economic competition. Global power elites will share the spoils. The elite agenda is settled. Elites now await a new shock. The Shock Doctrine Naomi Klein’s 2007 book, The Shock Doctrine, popularized a technique elites use to advance hidden agendas. Elites formulate plans for the world order they wish to see. They wait for an exogenous shock, a natural disaster or financial crisis, then use fear created by shock to advance their vision. New policy is presented to mitigate the fear.

Frenemies: The Epic Disruption of the Ad Business by Ken Auletta

"World Economic Forum" Davos, Airbnb, Alvin Toffler, AOL-Time Warner, barriers to entry, Bernie Sanders, bike sharing, Boris Johnson, Build a better mousetrap, Burning Man, call centre, Cambridge Analytica, capitalist realism, carbon footprint, cloud computing, commoditize, connected car, content marketing, corporate raider, crossover SUV, data science, digital rights, disintermediation, Donald Trump, driverless car, Elon Musk, fake news, financial engineering, forensic accounting, Future Shock, Google Glasses, Internet of things, Jeff Bezos, Kevin Roose, Khan Academy, Lyft, Mark Zuckerberg, market design, Mary Meeker, Max Levchin, Menlo Park, move fast and break things, Naomi Klein, NetJets, Network effects, pattern recognition, pets.com, race to the bottom, Richard Feynman, ride hailing / ride sharing, Salesforce, Saturday Night Live, self-driving car, sharing economy, Sheryl Sandberg, Shoshana Zuboff, Silicon Valley, Snapchat, Steve Ballmer, Steve Jobs, surveillance capitalism, Susan Wojcicki, The Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen, three-martini lunch, Tim Cook: Apple, transaction costs, Uber and Lyft, uber lyft, Upton Sinclair, éminence grise

A 2016 study of Western Europe for the World Federation of Advertisers, based in Brussels, concluded that each euro spent on advertising equates to seven euros of economic value. Predicting the exact impact of advertising on consumer behavior is not an exact science—though this book will demonstrate that going forward data will yield better evidence—but by anyone’s measure, advertising and marketing packs a mighty economic wallop. Naomi Klein chose to measure the impact of advertising in a very different way. In her book No Logo,* first published in 2000, she portrayed advertising “as the most public face of a deeply faulty economic system” that promoted sweatshops to produce their often unhealthy products, and that propped up global companies that held sway over politicians to advance globalism, which exported jobs.

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Evidence of advertising fatigue is found in ad blockers and in Nielsen data that says half of those who watch TV shows they have recorded on their DVR devices skip past the ads. The anxiety of the advertising community is revealed in the gibberish or verbal smokescreens they now employ. Just before the millennium, advertisers began to refer to themselves as “brand stewards,” as if the brand had a soul. Nike, as an amused Naomi Klein observed, announced that its mission was to “enhance people’s lives through sports and fitness”; Polaroid said it was selling “a social lubricant,” not a camera; IBM was promoting “business solutions, not computers.” All this begs a fundamental question that comes up often in the advertising and marketing community: Are they sufficiently alarmed about the menace they face?

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As comfortable interrogating a network executive as he is interviewing a software genius or bottling a human tornado like Ted Turner, Auletta builds his media-technology books the way a mason builds a wall—upon a firm foundation, one brick at a time and as level as the horizon.” He and his wife live in Manhattan. What’s next on your reading list? Discover your next great read! * * * Get personalized book picks and up-to-date news about this author. Sign up now. * Naomi Klein, No Logo (New York: Picador, 2000). * Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2016). * Randall Rothenberg, Where the Suckers Moon: An Advertising Story (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994). * Bob Levenson, Bill Bernbach’s Book: A History of the Advertising That Changed the History of Advertising (New York: Villard Books, 1987)

Quit Like a Woman: The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed With Alcohol by Holly Glenn Whitaker

BIPOC, Black Lives Matter, cognitive dissonance, deep learning, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, en.wikipedia.org, epigenetics, fake news, fixed income, impulse control, incognito mode, Mahatma Gandhi, mass incarceration, medical residency, microaggression, microbiome, Naomi Klein, Nelson Mandela, opioid epidemic / opioid crisis, Peter Thiel, Rat Park, rent control, Rosa Parks, Silicon Valley, Snapchat, Steve Jobs, TED Talk, Torches of Freedom, twin studies, WeWork, white picket fence, young professional, zero-sum game

Gabor Maté on Illness and Addiction,” Truthout.org, June 1, 2013, https://truthout.org/audio/capitalism-makes-us-crazy-dr-gabor-mate-on-illness-and-addiction/; Alexander, Globalization of Addiction; D. Courtwright, The Age of Addiction: How Bad Habits Became Big Business (Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2019); Naomi Klein, “Johann Hari & Naomi Klein: Does Capitalism Drive Drug Addiction?” Democracy Now, March 11, 2015, https://www.democracynow.org/2015/3/11/johann_hari_naomi_klein_does_capitalism. 321It’s Big Pharma: Robert Whitaker, Mad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill (Philadelphia: Perseus, 2002); Robert Whitaker, Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America (New York: Broadway Books, 2010); Andrea Tone, The Age of Anxiety: A History of America’s Turbulent Affair with Tranquilizers (Philadelphia: Basic Books, 2009); Szasz, Ceremonial Chemistry; Barry Meier, “Origins of an Epidemic: Purdue Pharma Knew Its Opioids Were Widely Abused,” New York Times, May 29, 2018; Chris McGreal, “Johnson & Johnson Faces Multibillion Opioids Lawsuit That Could Upend Big Pharma,” Guardian, June 23, 2019, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jun/22/johnson-and-johnson-opioids-crisis-lawsuit-latest-trial; Daniel Oberhaus, “Risky Drugs Are Being Marketed to People with Mental Health Issues,” Vice, August 15, 2017, https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/a33gbe/risky-drugs-are-being-marketed-to-people-with-mental-health-issues; Robert Whitaker, “The Downside of Meds,” Boston.com, May 10, 2010, http://archive.boston.com/news/health/articles/2010/05/10/robert_whitaker_talks_about_the_downside_to_psychiatric_meds/. 321It’s a government: German Lopez, “The War on Drugs, Explained,” Vox, May 8, 2016, https://www.vox.com/2016/5/8/18089368/war-on-drugs-marijuana-cocaine-heroin-meth; Bushauna Freeman, “Government Spending on Drug Control: Are the Priorities Right?”

The End of the Free Market: Who Wins the War Between States and Corporations? by Ian Bremmer

"World Economic Forum" Davos, affirmative action, Asian financial crisis, banking crisis, Berlin Wall, BRICs, British Empire, centre right, collective bargaining, corporate governance, creative destruction, credit crunch, Credit Default Swap, cuban missile crisis, Deng Xiaoping, diversified portfolio, Doha Development Round, Exxon Valdez, failed state, Fall of the Berlin Wall, Francis Fukuyama: the end of history, Glass-Steagall Act, global reserve currency, global supply chain, household responsibility system, invisible hand, joint-stock company, Joseph Schumpeter, Kickstarter, laissez-faire capitalism, low skilled workers, mass immigration, means of production, megacity, Mikhail Gorbachev, military-industrial complex, mutually assured destruction, Naomi Klein, Nelson Mandela, new economy, offshore financial centre, open economy, race to the bottom, reserve currency, risk tolerance, Savings and loan crisis, shareholder value, Shenzhen special economic zone , South Sea Bubble, sovereign wealth fund, special economic zone, spice trade, The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, too big to fail, trade liberalization, trade route, tulip mania, uranium enrichment, Washington Consensus, Yom Kippur War, zero-sum game

Finally, for tribal, ethnic, or sectarian groups—whether Croats, Kurds, or Northern Ireland’s Catholics—achievement of an independent nation-state remains the most tangible form of universal recognition. The Multinational Menace No organization has been singled out as a threat to the nation-state more often or with more theatrical flair than the multinational corporation. In her 2000 book, No Logo, author Naomi Klein warned that “corporations have grown so big they have superseded government.”8 For a more colorful obituary of the nation-state, look back to one of the great American films of the 1970s. If you were around in 1976 to see Network when it was first released, you probably remember Ned Beatty as Arthur Jensen, standing in a darkened corporate boardroom and thundering at Peter Finch’s disturbed and cowering network news anchor, Howard Beale:You are an old man who thinks in terms of nations and peoples.

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But none of these organizations has eroded the sovereign power of its member states. 7 The best recent reports on China’s system of censorship include Rebecca MacKinnon, “China’s Censorship 2.0: How Companies Censor Bloggers,” First Monday blog, vol. 14, no. 2-2 Feb. 2009; Race to the Bottom: Corporate Complicity in Chinese Internet Censorship, Human Rights Watch, Aug. 2006; and Journey to the Heart of Internet Censorship, Reporters Without Borders, Oct. 2007. 8 Naomi Klein, No Logo (Toronto: Knopf, 1999), xxiii. 9 Sarah Anderson and John Cavanagh, The Top 200: The Rise of Corporate Global Power (Washington, D.C.: Institute for Policy Studies, Dec. 2000), based on statistics from Forbes magazine. 10 Frances Maguire, “The New Masters of the Universe,” Banker, Jan. 2, 2006. 11 United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), World Investment Report 2008: Transnational Corporations and the Infrastructure Challenge (New York/Geneva). 12 These critics had plenty of vivid stories to make their charges stick: Union Carbide’s chemical plant in Bhopal, India, which accidentally released tons of toxic gas in December 1984, killing several thousand people over a period of several years; the Exxon Valdez oil spill that badly damaged Alaska’s Prince William Sound in March 1989; the reported use of poorly paid and treated workers, and even child labor, in footwear factories producing shoes for Nike, Puma, Reebok, and Adidas in countries like Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indonesia, and Vietnam; Philip Morris’s allegedly aggressive marketing of carcinogenic cigarettes in developing countries; and the refusal of big pharmaceutical companies to allow patented HIV/AIDS drugs to be reproduced cheaply in the African countries that arguably needed them most.

Rules for Revolutionaries: How Big Organizing Can Change Everything by Becky Bond, Zack Exley

battle of ideas, Bernie Sanders, Black Lives Matter, call centre, centre right, cognitive dissonance, crowdsourcing, declining real wages, digital rights, Donald Trump, family office, fixed income, full employment, hiring and firing, hydraulic fracturing, immigration reform, income inequality, Kickstarter, mass incarceration, Naomi Klein, Occupy movement, oil shale / tar sands, plutocrats, randomized controlled trial, Skype, telemarketer, union organizing

That includes a great many who didn’t sign up for the political revolution this time around, which is good news: Our movements can learn how to go even bigger and broader. We can win—but only if we continue to develop the kinds of tactics, tools, and vision laid out in this vitally important book, perhaps the first to explore how to organize at the true scale of the crises we face.” —Naomi Klein, author of This Changes Everything and The Shock Doctrine “Climate activists around the world watched Bernie’s vibrant volunteer network with envy and wondered whether we, too, could build that level of engagement absent a candidate and national election. Bond and Exley answer that question: Yes, we can!

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The people running the nonprofits participating in the coalition are not going to support you when you try to blow everything up. They can’t because they are dependent on that money—and money almost always comes with at least one string attached: the one that says you can’t blow everything up. When it comes to climate change—as Naomi Klein brilliantly documented in her book This Changes Everything—some of the largest environmental groups and their supporting industry of consultants are deeply in the pockets of big corporations and their charitable arms. The plans they propose simply don’t call for change as fast as we need it. And in this case, gradual change means catastrophe.

The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule by Thomas Frank

"Hurricane Katrina" Superdome, affirmative action, Alan Greenspan, anti-communist, barriers to entry, Berlin Wall, Bernie Madoff, British Empire, business cycle, classic study, collective bargaining, corporate governance, Credit Default Swap, David Brooks, disinformation, edge city, financial deregulation, full employment, George Gilder, guest worker program, Ida Tarbell, income inequality, invisible hand, job satisfaction, Michael Milken, Mikhail Gorbachev, Mont Pelerin Society, mortgage debt, Naomi Klein, Nelson Mandela, new economy, P = NP, plutocrats, Ponzi scheme, Ralph Nader, rent control, Richard Florida, road to serfdom, rolodex, Ronald Reagan, school vouchers, shareholder value, Silicon Valley, stem cell, stock buybacks, Strategic Defense Initiative, Telecommunications Act of 1996, the scientific method, too big to fail, Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, union organizing, War on Poverty

Touch Wall Street and you’re dead. The longing for permanent victory over liberalism is not unique to the Anglo-Saxon world. In country after country, business elites have come up with ingenious ways to limit the public’s political choices. One of the most effective of these has been massive public debt. Naomi Klein, a journalist who has traveled the world documenting the great shift to the right, finds that in case after case, the burden of enormous debts—often piled up by dictatorships or other noxious regimes—forced democratic countries to accept a laissez-faire system that they otherwise found deeply distasteful.

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Lincoln Steffens, The Shame of the Cities (1904; reprint, New York: Sagamore Press, 1957), p. 4. Lincoln Steffens, The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1931), p. 413. 30. “In one place on Earth, the theory would finally be put into practice in its most perfect and uncompromised form,” writes Naomi Klein. “A country of 25 million would not be rebuilt as it was before the war; it would be erased, disappeared. In its place would spring forth a gleaming showroom for laissez-faire economics, a utopia such as the world had never seen.” Klein, “Baghdad Year Zero: Pillaging Iraq in Pursuit of a Neocon Utopia,” Harper’s, September 2004.

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A revolution is not successful unless it succeeds in preserving itself.” Hart, The Third Generation, p. 158. 2. On breaking the cycle of nationalization and privatization, see John Burton, “Privatization: The Thatcher Case,” Managerial and Decision Economics, 8 (1987). On the privatization of housing, see Naomi Klein, Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2007), p. 135. Eradicating Labor Party socialism: Richard A. Melcher, “Thatcher’s Revolution: Act III,” Business Week, May 25, 1987. 3. The quotes cited here are drawn from the following essays, most of them available on the Web site of Americans for Tax Reform.

The Case for Space: How the Revolution in Spaceflight Opens Up a Future of Limitless Possibility by Robert Zubrin

Ada Lovelace, Albert Einstein, anthropic principle, Apollo 11, battle of ideas, Boeing 747, Charles Babbage, Charles Lindbergh, Colonization of Mars, complexity theory, cosmic microwave background, cosmological principle, Dennis Tito, discovery of DNA, double helix, Elon Musk, en.wikipedia.org, flex fuel, Francis Fukuyama: the end of history, gravity well, if you build it, they will come, Internet Archive, invisible hand, ITER tokamak, James Webb Space Telescope, Jeff Bezos, Johannes Kepler, John von Neumann, Kim Stanley Robinson, Kuiper Belt, low earth orbit, Mars Rover, Mars Society, Menlo Park, more computing power than Apollo, Naomi Klein, nuclear winter, ocean acidification, off grid, out of africa, Peter H. Diamandis: Planetary Resources, Peter Thiel, place-making, Pluto: dwarf planet, private spaceflight, Recombinant DNA, rising living standards, Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, self-driving car, Silicon Valley, SoftBank, SpaceX Starlink, Strategic Defense Initiative, Stuart Kauffman, telerobotics, Thomas Malthus, three-masted sailing ship, time dilation, transcontinental railway, uranium enrichment, Virgin Galactic, Wayback Machine

Russ George, “We Can Bring Back Healthy Fish in Abundance Almost Everywhere,” personal website, http://russgeorge.net/2014/04/11/bring-back-fish-everywhere/ accessed November 17, 2018). 8. NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center, http://disc.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/giovanni/giovanni_user_images#iron_bloom_northPac (accessed November 17, 2018). 9. Naomi Klein, This Changes Everything: Capitalism against the Climate (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2014); Naomi Klein, “Geoengineering: Testing the Waters,” New York Times, October 28, 2012, http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/28/opinion/sunday/geoengineering-testing-the-waters.html?pagewanted=all (accessed January 25, 2019). 10. Margaret Munro, “Ocean Fertilization: ‘Rogue Climate Hacker’ Russ George Raises Storm of Controversy,” Vancouver Sun, October 18, 2012. 11.

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For example, Silvia Ribeiro, of the international environmental watchdog ETC group, objected to it on the basis that it might undermine the case for carbon rationing. “It is now more urgent than ever that governments unequivocally ban such open-air geoengineering experiments. They are a dangerous distraction providing governments and industry with an excuse to avoid reducing fossil fuel emissions.” Writing in the New York Times, Naomi Klein, the author of a book on “how the climate crisis can spur economic and political transformation,” said that “at first,…it felt like a miracle.”9 But then she was struck by a disturbing thought: If Mr. George's account of the mission is to be believed, his actions created an algae bloom in an area half of the size of Massachusetts that attracted a huge array of aquatic life, including whales that could be “counted by the score.”

The New Digital Age: Transforming Nations, Businesses, and Our Lives by Eric Schmidt, Jared Cohen

access to a mobile phone, additive manufacturing, airport security, Amazon Mechanical Turk, Amazon Web Services, Andy Carvin, Andy Rubin, anti-communist, augmented reality, Ayatollah Khomeini, barriers to entry, bitcoin, borderless world, call centre, Chelsea Manning, citizen journalism, clean water, cloud computing, crowdsourcing, data acquisition, Dean Kamen, disinformation, driverless car, drone strike, Elon Musk, Evgeny Morozov, failed state, false flag, fear of failure, Filter Bubble, Google Earth, Google Glasses, Hacker Conference 1984, hive mind, income inequality, information security, information trail, invention of the printing press, job automation, John Markoff, Julian Assange, Khan Academy, Kickstarter, knowledge economy, Law of Accelerating Returns, market fundamentalism, Mary Meeker, means of production, military-industrial complex, MITM: man-in-the-middle, mobile money, mutually assured destruction, Naomi Klein, Nelson Mandela, no-fly zone, off-the-grid, offshore financial centre, Parag Khanna, peer-to-peer, peer-to-peer lending, personalized medicine, Peter Singer: altruism, power law, Ray Kurzweil, RFID, Robert Bork, self-driving car, sentiment analysis, Silicon Valley, Skype, Snapchat, social graph, speech recognition, Steve Jobs, Steven Pinker, Stewart Brand, Stuxnet, Susan Wojcicki, The Wisdom of Crowds, upwardly mobile, Whole Earth Catalog, WikiLeaks, young professional, zero day

., see Discussion of the Cassation Commission, pages 28 and 30. But despite their good intentions: Ibid, 29–31. The Somali diaspora: France Lamy, “Mapping Towards Crisis Relief in the Horn of Africa,” Google Maps, August 12, 2011, http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2011/08/mapping-towards-crisis-relief-in-horn.html. The journalist Naomi Klein: Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (New York: Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt, 2007). hundreds of thousands were killed: “Paul Farmer Examines Haiti ‘After the Earthquake,’ ” NPR, July 12, 2011, http://www.npr.org/2011/07/12/137762573/paul-farmer-examines-haiti-after-the-earthquake.

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All it takes is a bit of creativity, plenty of bandwidth and the will to innovate. 1 These difficulties were compounded by the fact that the United States set up operational headquarters in Saddam Hussein’s former palaces, which had been turned into electronically shielded bunkers by the paranoid dictator. 2 We take these duties from a list of the ten functions of the state in the book Fixing Failed States, by Clare Lockhart and Ashraf Ghani, the founders of the Institute for State Effectiveness. 3 The journalist Naomi Klein famously called these actors “disaster capitalists” in her provocative book The Shock Doctrine. Klein argues that neo-liberal economics advocates seek to exploit a postcrisis environment to impose free-market ideals, usually to the detriment of the existing economic order. Like psychological shock therapy, this free-market fundamentalism uses the appearance of a “blank slate” to violently reshape the economic environment. 4 Estimates on the death toll of the Haitian earthquake vary widely.

Company of One: Why Staying Small Is the Next Big Thing for Business by Paul Jarvis

Abraham Maslow, Airbnb, big-box store, Boeing 747, Cal Newport, call centre, content marketing, corporate social responsibility, David Heinemeier Hansson, digital nomad, drop ship, effective altruism, Elon Musk, en.wikipedia.org, endowment effect, follow your passion, fulfillment center, gender pay gap, glass ceiling, growth hacking, Inbox Zero, independent contractor, index fund, job automation, Kickstarter, Lyft, Mark Zuckerberg, Naomi Klein, passive investing, Paul Graham, pets.com, remote work: asynchronous communication, remote working, Results Only Work Environment, ride hailing / ride sharing, Ruby on Rails, Salesforce, Sheryl Sandberg, side project, Silicon Valley, Skype, Snapchat, social bookmarking, software as a service, Steve Jobs, supply-chain management, TED Talk, Tim Cook: Apple, too big to fail, uber lyft, web application, William MacAskill, Y Combinator, Y2K

If done poorly, this practice can create problems ranging from low ethical standards and unfair wages to vast amounts of waste as a side effect of manufacturing. In the beginning of separating branding from production, large companies believed that great fortunes could be made by achieving the lowest common denominator in production, and in recent years that belief has been propelled by the forces of globalization. According to author and activist Naomi Klein, however, globalization has had negative effects on workers, including poor conditions, low salaries, and unfair treatment. Klein believes that a new movement, one very much in line with the mind-set of companies of one, is breaking away from global brands with questionable morals that focus on maximizing profits over people, and that this movement will shift businesses toward slower, smaller, or on-demand strategies, making them more “fair” in all senses of the word.

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Revealing and Addressing Commitment Drift in Business,” Harvard University, Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, July 21, 2014, https://ethics.harvard.edu/blog/does-your-company-keep-its-promises-revealing-and-addressing-commitment-drift. 8. Scalable Systems 127 low salaries, and unfair treatment: Naomi Klein, No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump’s Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need (New York: Haymarket Books, 2017), 113. 129 return on investment of 3,800 percent: Jordie van Rijn, “National Client Email Report 2015,” Data & Marketing Association, 2015, https://dma.org.uk/uploads/ckeditor/National-client-email-2015.pdf. 130 26 percent more likely to be opened: Campaign Monitor, “The New Rules of Email Marketing,” https://www.campaignmonitor.com/resources/guides/email-marketing-new-rules/. 130 segmented automation emails: “Q1 2017 Email Trends and Benchmarks Show Increase in Desktop Open Rates,” Epsilon, July 24, 2017, http://pressroom.epsilon.com/q1-2017-north-america-email-trends-and-benchmarks-show-increase-in-desktop-open-rates-2/,7,11. 9.

The Profiteers by Sally Denton

Albert Einstein, anti-communist, Ayatollah Khomeini, Bay Area Rapid Transit, Berlin Wall, Boycotts of Israel, clean water, company town, corporate governance, crony capitalism, disinformation, Donald Trump, Edward Snowden, energy security, Fall of the Berlin Wall, G4S, invisible hand, James Watt: steam engine, Joan Didion, Kitchen Debate, laissez-faire capitalism, Lewis Mumford, megaproject, Mikhail Gorbachev, military-industrial complex, mutually assured destruction, Naomi Klein, new economy, nuclear winter, power law, profit motive, Robert Hanssen: Double agent, Ronald Reagan, Seymour Hersh, Silicon Valley, trickle-down economics, uranium enrichment, urban planning, vertical integration, WikiLeaks, wikimedia commons, William Langewiesche

Shultz neglected to disclose to his readers that he was a member of the board of directors of Bechtel, which was positioned to make billions of dollars in postwar reconstruction contracts. “Since his role was at arm’s length from the administration, he was able to whip up hysteria about the imminent danger posed by Saddam, entirely free from any burden of proof or fact,” wrote Naomi Klein, author of Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. Nor were the riches now flowing limited to Iraq. Bechtel landed the contract to “remove the remains of the twin towers” after the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center. But the fact that Bechtel was also considered for the billion-dollar ground zero cleanup barely made the headlines.

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One of the deadliest hurricanes in American history, Katrina was the catastrophe that “Uncle Miltie,” as his powerful followers called the famous ninety-three-year-old economist, had been seeking for decades. In one of her groundbreaking and controversial books, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, Naomi Klein described the free-market global economic strategy that the Friedmanites had been perfecting since the 1970s: “waiting for a major crisis, then selling off pieces of the state to private players while citizens were still reeling from the shock, then quickly making the ‘reforms’ permanent.” Katrina formed in the Gulf of Mexico in August 2005, causing severe destruction in the Bahamas and along the Gulf Coast.

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“a secret supergovernment” . . . “fabrication” . . . “not to reveal details”: “The Koch-Weinberger Letters: An Exchange of Rejoinders on the Mideast,” New York Times, November 9, 1983. CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE: ULTIMATE INSIDERS “young pup” . . . “feet” . . . “cluster of geniuses”: Rumsfeld, quoted in Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (New York: Picador, 2007), 65. See also Klein, 611, n. 5. “preference for uniformed”: Morris, “Undertaker’s Tally” (Part 1). “After the Iranian”: St. Clair, “Bechtel, More Powerful Than the U.S. Army,” 7. “unpaid government employee” . . .

Adam Smith: Father of Economics by Jesse Norman

active measures, Alan Greenspan, Andrei Shleifer, balance sheet recession, bank run, banking crisis, Basel III, Bear Stearns, behavioural economics, Berlin Wall, Black Swan, Branko Milanovic, Bretton Woods, British Empire, Broken windows theory, business cycle, business process, Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty, Carmen Reinhart, centre right, cognitive dissonance, collateralized debt obligation, colonial exploitation, Corn Laws, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Credit Default Swap, credit default swaps / collateralized debt obligations, crony capitalism, David Brooks, David Ricardo: comparative advantage, deindustrialization, electricity market, Eugene Fama: efficient market hypothesis, experimental economics, Fall of the Berlin Wall, Fellow of the Royal Society, financial engineering, financial intermediation, frictionless, frictionless market, future of work, George Akerlof, Glass-Steagall Act, Hyman Minsky, income inequality, incomplete markets, information asymmetry, intangible asset, invention of the telescope, invisible hand, Isaac Newton, Jean Tirole, John Nash: game theory, joint-stock company, Joseph Schumpeter, Kenneth Arrow, Kenneth Rogoff, lateral thinking, loss aversion, low interest rates, market bubble, market fundamentalism, Martin Wolf, means of production, mirror neurons, money market fund, Mont Pelerin Society, moral hazard, moral panic, Naomi Klein, negative equity, Network effects, new economy, non-tariff barriers, Northern Rock, Pareto efficiency, Paul Samuelson, Peter Thiel, Philip Mirowski, price mechanism, principal–agent problem, profit maximization, public intellectual, purchasing power parity, random walk, rent-seeking, Richard Thaler, Robert Shiller, Robert Solow, Ronald Coase, scientific worldview, seigniorage, Socratic dialogue, South Sea Bubble, special economic zone, speech recognition, Steven Pinker, The Chicago School, The Myth of the Rational Market, The Nature of the Firm, The Rise and Fall of American Growth, The Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen, The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, The Wisdom of Crowds, theory of mind, Thomas Malthus, Thorstein Veblen, time value of money, transaction costs, transfer pricing, Veblen good, Vilfredo Pareto, Washington Consensus, working poor, zero-sum game

For many on the right of politics, he is a founding figure of the modern era: the greatest of all economists, an eloquent advocate of the freedom of the individual and the staunch enemy of state intervention, in a world released from the utopian delusions of communism and socialism. For many on the left, he is something very different: the true source and origin of so-called market fundamentalism, author of ‘the textbook on contemporary capitalism’ according to the activist and writer Naomi Klein, the prime mover of a materialist ideology that is sweeping the world and corrupting real sources of human value, an apologist for wealth and inequality and human selfishness—and a misogynist to boot. One thing is certain, however: in an era in which economists and economics have become ever more influential, Adam Smith is regarded as by far the most influential economist who has ever lived.

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Miller, Liberty Fund [1777] 1987 TMS: The Theory of Moral Sentiments, ed. D. D. Raphael and A. L. Macfie, Liberty Fund [1759–90] 1982 WN: An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, ed. R. H. Campbell, A. S. Skinner, and W. B. Todd, 2 vols., Liberty Fund [1776] 1981 INTRODUCTION ‘The textbook on contemporary capitalism’: from Naomi Klein, Sydney Peace Prize Lecture 2016, excerpted in The Nation, 14 November 2016. Smith is also deemed to be the origin of ‘Selfish Capitalism’ by the psychologist and writer Oliver James in his Selfish Capitalism, Random House 2008 Survey of economists: William L. Davis, Bob Figgins, David Hedengren and Daniel B.

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Cohen, Karl Marx’s Theory of History, Princeton University Press 1978 explores these issues in detail and with great clarity and sophistication Loss of institutions as a result of development of economic theory: see e.g. Peter Boettke, ‘Hayek’s Epistemic Liberalism’, Liberty Fund Review, September 2017. See also Murray Milgate and Shannon C. Stimson, After Adam Smith: A Century of Transformation in Politics and Political Economy, Princeton University Press 2009, Ch. 13 Critique of ‘neoliberalism’: see e.g. Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine, Penguin 2008, and Paul Mason, Postcapitalism: A Guide to our Future, Penguin 2015. For a vigorous defence and reclamation of the word ‘neoliberal’, see Madsen Pirie, The Neoliberal Mind: The Ideology of the Future, Adam Smith Institute 2017. For initiatives to create a more inclusive public understanding of capitalism, see the work of the Coalition for Inclusive Capitalism, www.inc-cap.com Keynes and uncertainty: the fundamental impact of distinguishing uncertainty from risk and treating uncertainty as a radical part of nature is explored within Keynes’s work by Hyman P.

The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good by William Easterly

"World Economic Forum" Davos, airport security, anti-communist, Asian financial crisis, bank run, banking crisis, Bob Geldof, Bretton Woods, British Empire, call centre, clean water, colonial exploitation, colonial rule, Edward Glaeser, end world poverty, European colonialism, failed state, farmers can use mobile phones to check market prices, George Akerlof, Gunnar Myrdal, guns versus butter model, Hernando de Soto, income inequality, income per capita, Indoor air pollution, intentional community, invisible hand, Kenneth Rogoff, laissez-faire capitalism, land bank, land reform, land tenure, Live Aid, microcredit, moral hazard, Naomi Klein, Nelson Mandela, publication bias, purchasing power parity, randomized controlled trial, Ronald Reagan, Scramble for Africa, structural adjustment programs, The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid, the scientific method, The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, Tragedy of the Commons, transaction costs, TSMC, War on Poverty, Xiaogang Anhui farmers

He concludes: “De facto trusteeships, and especially shared sovereignty, would offer political leaders a better chance of bringing peace and prosperity to the populations of badly governed states.” Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice appointed Stephen Krasner to be head of policy planning at the State Department on February 4, 2005. As Naomi Klein wrote in The Nation on May 2, 2005, the U.S. State Department has an interesting new office: On August 5, 2004, the White House created the Office of the Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization, headed by former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Carlos Pascual. Its mandate is to draw up elaborate “post-conflict” plans for up to twenty-five countries that are not, as of yet, in conflict….

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-led Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) in 2003 drew up one of the most radical free-market reforms ever attempted anywhere. Stanford economist John McMillan likened it to the “big-bang” free-market programs that had failed in the ex-Communist countries. The Economist wrote in 2003 that the intention of the CPA for Iraq was to “abruptly transform its economy into a virtual free trade zone.2 Naomi Klein wrote in September 2004 in Harper’s magazine about the attempt to transform Iraq from the blank slate of post-invasion “Year Zero” into a “neocon utopia.” CPA chief Paul Bremer announced the layoffs of five hundred thousand soldiers and state workers, the privatization of two hundred state enterprises, no restrictions on foreign investment in the nonoil sector, minimal taxes, and no import tariffs.

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Krishnan, “Professor Kingsfield Goes to Delhi: American Academics, the Ford Foundation, and the Development of Legal Education in India,” William Mitchell College of Law Working Paper no. 3, March 2005. CHAPTER 9. INVADING THE POOR 1.Quoted in http://www.socialstudieshelp.com/USRA_Imperialism_Justify.htm. 2.John McMillan, “Avoid Hubris: And Other Lessons for Reformers,” Stanford University mimeograph, July 2004. 3.Naomi Klein, “Baghdad Year Zero: Pillaging Iraq in Pursuit of a Neocon Utopia,” Harper’s, September 2004. 4.Ferguson, Colossus, p. 300. 5.Stephen Kinzer, Blood of Brothers: Life and War in Nicaragua, New York: Penguin, 1991, p. 364. 6.Lynn Horton, Peasants in Arms: War and Peace in the Mountains of Nicaragua, Athens: Ohio University Center for International Studies, 1988, p. 166. 7.The quote is from a Reagan speech made in 1986. 8.World Bank, Country Assistance Strategy, 2002. 9.Kinzer, Blood of Brothers, p. 179. 10.Horton, Peasants in Arms, p. 201. 11.Kinzer, Blood of Brothers, pp. 144–45. 12.Robert Kagan, A Twilight Struggle: American Power and Nicaragua, 1977–1990, New York: Free Press, 1996, pp. 210, 212. 13.Ibid., p. 218; Kinzer, Blood of Brothers, pp. 97–98 14.Horton, Peasants in Arms, pp. 233–35. 15.Ibid., pp. 267–69. 16.Ibid., pp. 281–82. 17.IMF, Article IV Report, February 2003, executive summary. 18.World Bank, Country Assistance Strategy, December 18, 2002. 19.Worth H.

A Paradise Built in Hell: Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster by Rebecca Solnit

"Hurricane Katrina" Superdome, Anthropocene, Berlin Wall, Burning Man, centre right, Community Supported Agriculture, David Graeber, different worldview, dumpster diving, gentrification, Golden Gate Park, illegal immigration, Loma Prieta earthquake, means of production, Mikhail Gorbachev, Naomi Klein, Nelson Mandela, public intellectual, race to the bottom, Ralph Waldo Emerson, rent control, San Francisco homelessness, South of Market, San Francisco, Thomas Malthus, Upton Sinclair, urban planning, War on Poverty, yellow journalism

Others turn to looting, pillaging, or other forms of selfish, exploitative behavior. The aftermath is widespread immorality, social conflict, and mental derangement.” Later, he described another stereotype: “that disasters render people a dazed and helpless mass completely dependent on outside aid for guidance and organization.” Those beliefs have yet to die. Naomi Klein’s 2007 book The Shock Doctrine is a trenchant investigation of how economic policies benefiting elites are thrust upon people in times of crisis. But it describes those people in all the old, unexamined terms and sees the aftermath of disaster as an opportunity for conquest from above rather than a contest of power whose outcome is sometimes populist or even revolutionary.

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If a revolution is a disaster—which many who oppose them would heartily endorse—it is so because a disaster is also a utopia of sorts; the two phenomena share aspects of solidarity, uncertainty, possibility, and the upending of the ordinary systems governing things—the rupture of the rules and the opening of many doors. Naomi Klein’s Shock Doctrine explores one side of the impact of disaster: the scramble for power on the side of the powerful, of authorities, institutions, and capitalism. It is a scramble because multiple parties or facets of society are contending for power and legitimacy, and sometimes the other side—the people, civil society, social justice—wins.

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People trample one another”: Charles Fritz, “Disaster,” in Contemporary Social Problems: An Introduction to the Sociology of Deviant Behavior and Social Disorganization, ed. Robert K. Merton and Robert A. Nisbet (New York: Harcourt, 1961), 672. 107 “these malleable moments, when we are psychologically unmoored and physically uprooted”: Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2007), 21. 107 “profound disorientation, extreme fear and anxiety, and collective regression”: Ibid., 42. Klein is talking about the effects of the September 11, 2001, disaster on New Yorkers. 107 In a public talk: Sponsored by City Lights Books and held at the First Unitarian Church, San Francisco, September 26, 2007.

Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress by Steven Pinker

3D printing, Abraham Maslow, access to a mobile phone, affirmative action, Affordable Care Act / Obamacare, agricultural Revolution, Albert Einstein, Alfred Russel Wallace, Alignment Problem, An Inconvenient Truth, anti-communist, Anton Chekhov, Arthur Eddington, artificial general intelligence, availability heuristic, Ayatollah Khomeini, basic income, Berlin Wall, Bernie Sanders, biodiversity loss, Black Swan, Bonfire of the Vanities, Brexit referendum, business cycle, capital controls, Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty, carbon footprint, carbon tax, Charlie Hebdo massacre, classic study, clean water, clockwork universe, cognitive bias, cognitive dissonance, Columbine, conceptual framework, confounding variable, correlation does not imply causation, creative destruction, CRISPR, crowdsourcing, cuban missile crisis, Daniel Kahneman / Amos Tversky, dark matter, data science, decarbonisation, degrowth, deindustrialization, dematerialisation, demographic transition, Deng Xiaoping, distributed generation, diversified portfolio, Donald Trump, Doomsday Clock, double helix, Eddington experiment, Edward Jenner, effective altruism, Elon Musk, en.wikipedia.org, end world poverty, endogenous growth, energy transition, European colonialism, experimental subject, Exxon Valdez, facts on the ground, fake news, Fall of the Berlin Wall, first-past-the-post, Flynn Effect, food miles, Francis Fukuyama: the end of history, frictionless, frictionless market, Garrett Hardin, germ theory of disease, Gini coefficient, Great Leap Forward, Hacker Conference 1984, Hans Rosling, hedonic treadmill, helicopter parent, Herbert Marcuse, Herman Kahn, Hobbesian trap, humanitarian revolution, Ignaz Semmelweis: hand washing, income inequality, income per capita, Indoor air pollution, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), invention of writing, Jaron Lanier, Joan Didion, job automation, Johannes Kepler, John Snow's cholera map, Kevin Kelly, Khan Academy, knowledge economy, l'esprit de l'escalier, Laplace demon, launch on warning, life extension, long peace, longitudinal study, Louis Pasteur, Mahbub ul Haq, Martin Wolf, mass incarceration, meta-analysis, Michael Shellenberger, microaggression, Mikhail Gorbachev, minimum wage unemployment, moral hazard, mutually assured destruction, Naomi Klein, Nate Silver, Nathan Meyer Rothschild: antibiotics, negative emissions, Nelson Mandela, New Journalism, Norman Mailer, nuclear taboo, nuclear winter, obamacare, ocean acidification, Oklahoma City bombing, open economy, opioid epidemic / opioid crisis, paperclip maximiser, Paris climate accords, Paul Graham, peak oil, Peter Singer: altruism, Peter Thiel, post-truth, power law, precautionary principle, precision agriculture, prediction markets, public intellectual, purchasing power parity, radical life extension, Ralph Nader, randomized controlled trial, Ray Kurzweil, rent control, Republic of Letters, Richard Feynman, road to serfdom, Robert Gordon, Rodney Brooks, rolodex, Ronald Reagan, Rory Sutherland, Saturday Night Live, science of happiness, Scientific racism, Second Machine Age, secular stagnation, self-driving car, sharing economy, Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley ideology, Simon Kuznets, Skype, smart grid, Social Justice Warrior, sovereign wealth fund, sparse data, stem cell, Stephen Hawking, Steve Bannon, Steven Pinker, Stewart Brand, Stuxnet, supervolcano, synthetic biology, tech billionaire, technological determinism, technological singularity, Ted Kaczynski, Ted Nordhaus, TED Talk, The Rise and Fall of American Growth, the scientific method, The Signal and the Noise by Nate Silver, The Spirit Level, The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, The Wisdom of Crowds, Thomas Kuhn: the structure of scientific revolutions, Thomas Malthus, total factor productivity, Tragedy of the Commons, union organizing, universal basic income, University of East Anglia, Unsafe at Any Speed, Upton Sinclair, uranium enrichment, urban renewal, W. E. B. Du Bois, War on Poverty, We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters, women in the workforce, working poor, World Values Survey, Y2K

Nordhaus, “Why the Global Warming Skeptics Are Wrong,” New York Review of Books, March 22, 2012; R. W. Cohen et al., “In the Climate Casino: An Exchange,” New York Review of Books, April 26, 2012. 51. Climate justice: Foreman 2013. 52. Klein vs. carbon tax: C. Komanoff, “Naomi Klein Is Wrong on the Policy That Could Change Everything,” Carbon Tax Center blog, https://www.carbontax.org/blog/2016/11/07/naomi-klein-is-wrong-on-the-policy-that-could-change-everything/; Koch brothers vs. carbon tax: C. Komanoff, “To the Left-Green Opponents of I-732: How Does It Feel?” Carbon Tax Center blog, https://www.carbontax.org/blog/2016/11/04/to-the-left-green-opponents-of-i-732-how-does-it-feel/.

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Since dealing with climate change will be a multidecade effort, there’s plenty of time to back off if temperature, sea level, and ocean acidity happily stop rising. Another response to climate change, from the far left, seems designed to vindicate the conspiracy theories of the far right. According to the “climate justice” movement popularized by the journalist Naomi Klein in her 2014 bestseller This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate, we should not treat the threat of climate change as a challenge to prevent climate change. No, we should treat it as an opportunity to abolish free markets, restructure the global economy, and remake our political system.51 In one of the more surreal episodes in the history of environmental politics, Klein joined the infamous David and Charles Koch, the billionaire oil industrialists and bankrollers of climate change denial, in helping to defeat a 2016 Washington state ballot initiative that would have implemented the country’s first carbon tax, the policy measure which almost every analyst endorses as a prerequisite to dealing with climate change.52 Why?

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Carbon Tax Center blog, https://www.carbontax.org/blog/2016/11/04/to-the-left-green-opponents-of-i-732-how-does-it-feel/. Economists’ statement on climate change: Arrow et al. 1997. Recent arguments for the carbon tax: “FAQs,” Carbon Tax Center blog, https://www.carbontax.org/faqs/. 53. “Naomi Klein on Why Low Oil Prices Could Be a Great Thing,” Grist, Feb. 9, 2015. 54. The problem with “climate justice” and “changing everything”: Foreman 2013; Shellenberger & Nordhaus 2013. 55. Scare tactics less effective than practical solutions: Braman et al. 2007; Feinberg & Willer 2011; Kahan, Jenkins-Smith, et al. 2012; O’Neill & Nicholson-Cole 2009; L. Sorantino, “Annenberg Study: Pope Francis’ Climate Change Encyclical Backfired Among Conservative Catholics,” Daily Pennsylvanian, Nov. 1, 2016, https://goo.gl/zUWXyk; T.

How to Kill a City: The Real Story of Gentrification by Peter Moskowitz

"Hurricane Katrina" Superdome, affirmative action, Airbnb, back-to-the-city movement, Bay Area Rapid Transit, Big Tech, Black Lives Matter, Blue Bottle Coffee, British Empire, clean water, collective bargaining, company town, David Brooks, deindustrialization, Detroit bankruptcy, do well by doing good, drive until you qualify, East Village, Edward Glaeser, fixed-gear, gentrification, Golden Gate Park, housing crisis, housing justice, income inequality, Jane Jacobs, Kickstarter, Kitchen Debate, land bank, late capitalism, messenger bag, mortgage tax deduction, Naomi Klein, new economy, New Urbanism, off-the-grid, private military company, profit motive, public intellectual, Quicken Loans, RAND corporation, rent control, rent gap, rent stabilization, restrictive zoning, Richard Florida, Ronald Reagan, school choice, Silicon Valley, starchitect, subprime mortgage crisis, tech worker, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, the High Line, trickle-down economics, urban planning, urban renewal, white flight, working poor, Works Progress Administration, young professional

.… The key will be luring middle-class families into the rebuilt city, making it so attractive to them that they will move in, even knowing that their blocks will include a certain number of poor people. Given how the recovery has progressed these past ten years, it’s tempting to wonder if New Orleans politicians used Brooks’s column as a playbook. Katrina became the perfect opportunity for politicians to institute what author and activist Naomi Klein calls “shock doctrine capitalism,” using the chaos provided by the crisis to push through the reforms Brooks suggests: dismantling institutions that served the poor, and making the city more accommodating to an influx in capital. The result is a city that feels richer than before, but also unfriendly to those who do not fit into its new economy.

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Police also shot and killed two unarmed people: Associated Press, “New Orleans Police Officers Jailed over Katrina Shootings Get New Trial,” The Guardian, September 17, 2013. “These are some of the 40,000 extra troops”: “Military Due to Move in to New Orleans,” CNN.com, September 2, 2005. Before Katrina, the New Orleans public school system: Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (New York: Picador, 2007), 6. “This is a tragedy”: Milton Friedman, “The Promise of Vouchers,” Wall Street Journal, December 5, 2005. Research from Tulane University: Adrienne Dixson, “Whose Choice? A Critical Race Perspective on Charter Schools,” in The Neoliberal Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, Late Capitalism, and the Remaking of New Orleans, ed.

Cult of the Dead Cow: How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the World by Joseph Menn

"World Economic Forum" Davos, 4chan, A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace, Andy Rubin, Apple II, autonomous vehicles, Berlin Wall, Bernie Sanders, Big Tech, bitcoin, Black Lives Matter, Cambridge Analytica, Chelsea Manning, Citizen Lab, commoditize, corporate governance, digital rights, disinformation, Donald Trump, dumpster diving, Edward Snowden, end-to-end encryption, fake news, Firefox, Gabriella Coleman, Google Chrome, Haight Ashbury, independent contractor, information security, Internet of things, Jacob Appelbaum, Jason Scott: textfiles.com, John Gilmore, John Markoff, John Perry Barlow, Julian Assange, Laura Poitras, machine readable, Mark Zuckerberg, military-industrial complex, Mitch Kapor, Mondo 2000, Naomi Klein, NSO Group, Peter Thiel, pirate software, pre–internet, Ralph Nader, ransomware, Richard Stallman, Robert Mercer, Russian election interference, self-driving car, Sheryl Sandberg, side project, Silicon Valley, Skype, slashdot, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, Steven Levy, Stewart Brand, Stuxnet, tech worker, Whole Earth Catalog, WikiLeaks, zero day

“The Hong Kong Blondes claim to have found significant security holes within Chinese government computer networks, particularly systems related to satellite communications.” It would look awfully strange if cDc did not print its own scoop. Besides, Misha thought the piece might raise awareness, and he had been solidly behind media pranks in the past. He smoothed out Laird’s interview and published it on the cDc site. After the Wired News piece, Naomi Klein got in touch. The rising Canadian journalist saw the Toronto angle and was especially interested in China. Clinton had been working to normalize relations and de-emphasize human rights, and he had just conducted the first presidential visit to the nation since the Tiananmen massacre. “She thinks we’re this righteous politicized hacking machine out for world peace or somethin’.… Anyway, we’re gonna get a lot of miles outa this baby,” Laird wrote to the group.

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“As leader of the Hong Kong Blondes”: Arik Hesseldahl, “Hacking for Human Rights?,” Wired News, July 14, 1998, www.cultdeadcow.com/news/wired/19980714/. “Clinton had been working to normalize relations”: “President Clinton’s Visit to China in Context,” Human Rights Watch, n.d., www.hrw.org/legacy/campaigns/china-98/visit.htm. “Klein’s wide-eyed write-up”: Naomi Klein, “Computer Hacking New Tool of Political Activism,” Toronto Star, July 23, 1998, reprinted at www.cultdeadcow.com/news/newspapers/toronto_star72398.txt. Klein also wrote about the Blondes in her book No Logo, in which she explained that she had confirmed the legitimacy of the Laird-Wong interview with the “subject” of that piece.

Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire by Michael Hardt, Antonio Negri

"World Economic Forum" Davos, affirmative action, air traffic controllers' union, Berlin Wall, Bretton Woods, British Empire, business cycle, classic study, conceptual framework, continuation of politics by other means, David Graeber, Defenestration of Prague, deskilling, disinformation, emotional labour, Fall of the Berlin Wall, feminist movement, Francis Fukuyama: the end of history, friendly fire, global village, Great Leap Forward, Howard Rheingold, Howard Zinn, illegal immigration, Joseph Schumpeter, land reform, land tenure, late capitalism, liberation theology, means of production, military-industrial complex, Naomi Klein, new economy, Paul Samuelson, Pier Paolo Pasolini, post-Fordism, post-work, private military company, race to the bottom, RAND corporation, reserve currency, Richard Stallman, Slavoj Žižek, the Cathedral and the Bazaar, The Chicago School, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere, Thomas Malthus, Thorstein Veblen, Tobin tax, transaction costs, union organizing, War on Poverty, Washington Consensus

The Truth about Bias and the News (New York: Basic Books, 2003); and Edward Herman, The Myth of the Liberal Media (New York: Peter Lang, 1999). 55 See David Morley and Kuan-Hsing Chen, Stuart Hall: Critical Dialogues in Cultural Studies (New York: Routledge, 1996). 56 For a description of the “social centers” in Italy, see Naomi Klein, Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debate (New York: Picador, 2002), 224-27. 57 For a useful summary of grievances across the world, see Samir Amin and François Houtart, eds., Mondialisation des résistences: L’état des luttes (Paris: L’Harmattan, 2002). 58 The literature on the 2000 U.S. presidential election is voluminous and growing.

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Clair, “Seattle Diary: It’s a Gas, Gas, Gas,” New Left Review, no. 238 (November-December 1999): 81-96. 80 See Mike Moore’s personal description of the successful path of the WTO from Seattle to Doha, A World Without Walls: Freedom, Development, Free Trade and Global Governance (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003). 81 The articles that Naomi Klein wrote as she traveled among the various globalization protest movements give a beautiful picture of their commonality and coherence. See Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debate (New York: Picador, 2002). 82 Social democrats (ever since the famous Bernstein debate) have insisted on the contradiction between reform and revolution, emphasizing the reasonableness of the former and the absurdity of the latter.

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Ronald Sousa (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1988), 3. 134 Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, act 4, scene 3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS It would be impossible here to thank all of those who helped us in the course of writing this book. We would like simply to acknowledge those who read the entire manuscript and gave us comments: Naomi Klein, Scott Moyers, Judith Revel, and Kathi Weeks. aA bricoleur is someone who constructs by piecing things together ad hoc, something like a handyman.

To Serve God and Wal-Mart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise by Bethany Moreton

affirmative action, American Legislative Exchange Council, anti-communist, Berlin Wall, big-box store, Bretton Woods, Buckminster Fuller, collective bargaining, company town, corporate personhood, creative destruction, deindustrialization, desegregation, Donald Trump, emotional labour, estate planning, eternal september, Fall of the Berlin Wall, Frederick Winslow Taylor, George Gilder, global village, Great Leap Forward, informal economy, invisible hand, liberation theology, longitudinal study, market fundamentalism, Mont Pelerin Society, mortgage tax deduction, Naomi Klein, new economy, post-industrial society, postindustrial economy, prediction markets, price anchoring, prosperity theology / prosperity gospel / gospel of success, Ralph Nader, RFID, road to serfdom, Ronald Reagan, scientific management, Silicon Valley, Stewart Brand, strikebreaker, The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, union organizing, walkable city, Washington Consensus, white flight, Whole Earth Catalog, work culture , Works Progress Administration

To the contrary, it was an unstable compound, the 269 TO SERVE GOD AND WAL - M ART product in part of impressive agglomerations of power and money.21 But it was also the progeny of pragmatic responses to real needs, of idealistic hope in redemption, and of the elevation of serÂ�vice from its devalued position in the broader culture. The ideological work required to attach these human impulses to the market or contain them within a narrow defiÂ�niÂ�tion of the sacred was breathtaking. Surveying the free-market transitions imposed in places like postKatrina New Orleans and post-invasion Iraq, Naomi Klein rightly draws attention to what she terms “diÂ�sasÂ�ter capÂ�italism,” or “the orchestrated raids on the public sphere in the wake of catastrophic events.”22 Quoting the free market’s most inÂ�fluÂ�enÂ�tial recent spokesman, she offers us Milton Friedman’s instructions for social change: “Only a crisis—acÂ�tual or perceived—,” wrote the Nobel Prize–winning economist in 1962, “produces real change.

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This summary of neoliberalism draws heavily on James Ferguson, “Introduction,” Global Shadows: Africa in the Neoliberal World Order (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006), 1–23; Nancy Folbre, The Invisible Heart: Economics and Family Values (New York: New Press, 2001); David Harvey, A Brief History of Neoliberalism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005); and Robert Kuttner, Everything for Sale: The Virtues and Limits of Markets (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997). 3. Elizabeth A. Fones-Wolf, Selling Free Enterprise: The Business Assault on Labor and Liberalism, 1945–60, History of Communication (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994); Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2007); Kim Phillips-Fein, “Top-Down Revolution: Businessmen, Intellectuals, and Politicians Against the New Deal, 1945–1964,” Enterprise & Society (2006): 686–94; Fred Turner, From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007). 312 NOTES TO PAGES 127 – 1 3 1 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25.

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See, for example, Elizabeth Fones-Wolf, Selling Free Enterprise: The Business Assault on Labor and Liberalism, 1945–1960 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1995); Kim Phillips-Fein, Invisible Hands: The Making of the Conservative Movement from the New Deal to Reagan (New York: W.W. Norton, 2009); James K. Galbraith, The Predator State: How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should, Too (New York: Free Press, 2008). 22. Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2007), 6. 23. Milton Friedman, quoted in Klein, Shock Doctrine, 6. 24. Liza Featherstone, “Down and Out in Discount America,” The Nation, January 8, 2005, 11–15; Steven Greenhouse, “Workers at Pork Plant in North Carolina Vote to Â�Unionize After a 15-Year Fight,” NYT, December 13, 2008, A10; George Packer, “The Hardest Vote,” New Yorker, October 13, 2008; Michael Luo and Karen Ann Cullotta, “Even Workers Surprised by the Success of Factory Sit-In,” NYT, December 13, 2008, A9; Carolyn Crist, “Group Seeks Higher Wage,” Red and Black [University of Georgia], February 29, 2008; www.econjustice.org. 349 Acknowledgments It takes a village to write a book, and I only wish the virtual village I have depended on for this one could be gathered into a single small town, maybe in the Ozarks.

Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity by Douglas Rushkoff

activist fund / activist shareholder / activist investor, Airbnb, Alan Greenspan, algorithmic trading, Amazon Mechanical Turk, Andrew Keen, bank run, banking crisis, barriers to entry, benefit corporation, bitcoin, blockchain, Burning Man, business process, buy and hold, buy low sell high, California gold rush, Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty, carbon footprint, centralized clearinghouse, citizen journalism, clean water, cloud computing, collaborative economy, collective bargaining, colonial exploitation, Community Supported Agriculture, corporate personhood, corporate raider, creative destruction, crowdsourcing, cryptocurrency, data science, deep learning, disintermediation, diversified portfolio, Dutch auction, Elon Musk, Erik Brynjolfsson, Ethereum, ethereum blockchain, fiat currency, Firefox, Flash crash, full employment, future of work, gamification, Garrett Hardin, gentrification, gig economy, Gini coefficient, global supply chain, global village, Google bus, Howard Rheingold, IBM and the Holocaust, impulse control, income inequality, independent contractor, index fund, iterative process, Jaron Lanier, Jeff Bezos, jimmy wales, job automation, Joseph Schumpeter, Kickstarter, Large Hadron Collider, loss aversion, low interest rates, Lyft, Marc Andreessen, Mark Zuckerberg, market bubble, market fundamentalism, Marshall McLuhan, means of production, medical bankruptcy, minimum viable product, Mitch Kapor, Naomi Klein, Network effects, new economy, Norbert Wiener, Oculus Rift, passive investing, payday loans, peer-to-peer lending, Peter Thiel, post-industrial society, power law, profit motive, quantitative easing, race to the bottom, recommendation engine, reserve currency, RFID, Richard Stallman, ride hailing / ride sharing, Ronald Reagan, Russell Brand, Satoshi Nakamoto, Second Machine Age, shareholder value, sharing economy, Silicon Valley, Snapchat, social graph, software patent, Steve Jobs, stock buybacks, TaskRabbit, the Cathedral and the Bazaar, The Future of Employment, the long tail, trade route, Tragedy of the Commons, transportation-network company, Turing test, Uber and Lyft, Uber for X, uber lyft, unpaid internship, Vitalik Buterin, warehouse robotics, Wayback Machine, Y Combinator, young professional, zero-sum game, Zipcar

“Housing starts” can accelerate only as fast as the market for new homes. When the marketplace isn’t being artificially goosed by speculators, humans just can’t keep up with the housing industry’s need for excuses to cut down more forests, irrigate more land, and construct more homes. Moreover, as Naomi Klein has more than demonstrated in her book This Changes Everything, climate change is a direct result of an expansionist economy: the physical environment can’t service the pace of capital while also sustaining human life.19 Economic philosopher John Stuart Mill identified this problem as far back as the 1800s.

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Ben Steverman, “Manipulate Me: The Booming Business in Behavioral Finance,” bloomberg.com, April 7, 2014. 17. Morgan House, “5 Alan Greenspan Quotes That Make You Wonder,” fool.com, October 15, 2008. 18. Michael Lewis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (New York, London: W. W. Norton, 2011). 19. Naomi Klein, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2014). 20. John Stuart Mill, Principles of Political Economy with Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy (London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1909), IV.6.2. 21. Ibid., IV.6.7. 22. David Dayen, “America’s Ugly Economic Truth: Why Austerity Is Generating Another Slowdown,” salon.com, October 21, 2014. 23.

No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age by Jane F. McAlevey

"RICO laws" OR "Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations", affirmative action, Affordable Care Act / Obamacare, Albert Einstein, anti-communist, antiwork, call centre, clean water, collective bargaining, emotional labour, feminist movement, gentrification, hiring and firing, immigration reform, independent contractor, informal economy, Mark Zuckerberg, mass incarceration, Naomi Klein, new economy, no-fly zone, Occupy movement, precariat, Right to Buy, Ronald Reagan, Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley startup, single-payer health, The Chicago School, union organizing, Upton Sinclair, vertical integration, women in the workforce

Ramirez and Potter devoted 2007 to making a handheld amateur video about the school closings, going around the city interviewing teachers, parents, and kids. By late 2007, these teachers had formed a citywide study group on the closings, inviting other teachers to join through informal activist networks.28 The Caucus of Rank-and-File Educators (CORE) Forms Evolving out of the study group, whose first collective read in 2008 was Naomi Klein’s The Shock Doctrine,29 two more important groups were developed: the Caucus of Rank-and-File Educators (CORE), inside of the Chicago Teachers Union, and soon after that the Grassroots Education Movement (GEM), a CORE-inspired coalition created with community-based organizations to fight school closings, gentrification, and racism.30 The Shock Doctrine had just been published, and Klein was shaping an analysis about mass school closures, capitalism, and racism.

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New York City has yet to recover from this ugly moment in the teachers’ union history. 14.Sue Garza and George Schmidt, author interviews, September 2014. 15.Robert Michels, Political Parties: A Sociological Study of the Oligarchic Tendencies of Modern Democracies, New York, NY: The Free Press, softcover edition, 1968. 16.George Schmidt, author interview, February 2015. 17.Illinois State General Assembly, Chicago School Reform Amendatory Act, Public Act 89-0015, 1995. 18.Although the idea was set up in the Amendatory Act, it would take one more year and some specific enabling legislation before the first charter schools opened in Illinois. 19.Illinois State General Assembly, ibid. 20.George Schmidt, author interview, October 2014. 21.http://www2.ed.gov/news/staff/bios/duncan.html. 22.CPS Stats & Facts, produced annually by the Chicago public schools. 23.Tracy Dell Angela, “South Side Faces School Shake Up,” Chicago Tribune, July 14, 2004. 24.The schools could also be “independent contract” schools or small schools, which, like charters, were placed outside the union’s purview. 25.Maureen Kelleher, “Rocky Start for Renaissance 2010,” Catalyst Chicago, October 1, 2004. 26.Angela Stich, “School Spirit,” NewCity Chicago blog, November 22, 2004. 27.Amisha Patel of the Grassroots Collaborative and Madeline Talbot, longtime leader of the Chicago branch of ACORN, author interviews, September and October, 2014. 28.Alexander Bradbury, Mark Brenner, Jenny Brown, Jane Slaughter, and Samantha Winslow, How to Jump-Start Your Union: Lessons from the Chicago Teachers, Detroit: Labor Notes, 2014. 29.Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine, New York: Picador, a division of Henry Holt Books, 2007. 30.GEM’s initial community partners included KOCO, the Pilsen Alliance, Blocks Together, Parents United for Responsible Education (PURE), Designs for Change, Teachers for Social Justice, and a mix of random Local Schools Council (LSC) activists.

Black Code: Inside the Battle for Cyberspace by Ronald J. Deibert

4chan, air gap, Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic, Brian Krebs, call centre, citizen journalism, Citizen Lab, cloud computing, connected car, corporate social responsibility, crowdsourcing, cuban missile crisis, data acquisition, digital divide, disinformation, end-to-end encryption, escalation ladder, Evgeny Morozov, failed state, Firefox, Gabriella Coleman, global supply chain, global village, Google Hangouts, Hacker Ethic, Herman Kahn, informal economy, information security, invention of writing, Iridium satellite, jimmy wales, John Gilmore, John Markoff, Kibera, Kickstarter, knowledge economy, Lewis Mumford, low earth orbit, Marshall McLuhan, military-industrial complex, MITM: man-in-the-middle, mobile money, mutually assured destruction, Naomi Klein, new economy, Occupy movement, off-the-grid, Panopticon Jeremy Bentham, planetary scale, rent-seeking, Ronald Reagan, Ronald Reagan: Tear down this wall, Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley startup, Skype, smart grid, South China Sea, Steven Levy, Streisand effect, Stuxnet, Ted Kaczynski, the medium is the message, Turing test, Twitter Arab Spring, undersea cable, unit 8200, We are Anonymous. We are Legion, WikiLeaks, Yochai Benkler, zero day

., SCADA Safety in Numbers, Positive Technologies, 2012, available at: www.​ptsecur​ity.co​m/do​wnload​/SCADA​_anal​ytics​_eng​lish.pdf. 15 “Cyberwar is very different from nuclear war …”: Fred Kaplan, “Why the United States Can’t Win a Cyberwar,” Slate, June 8, 2012, http​://ww​w.sl​ate.c​om/art​icles/​news_an​d_pol​itics/​war_st​ories/​2012/06/​obama​_s_​cyber_a​ttack​s_​on_i​ran_​wer​e_car​efully​_cons​idere​d_but​_the_​nucl​ear​_ar​ms_r​ace_​offer​s​_imp​ort​ant​_​lesso​ns​_.html. 12: THE INTERNET IS OFFICIALLY DEAD 1 The June 2011 RSA breach hit the American security: “Breachfest 2011” is documented in Matt Liebowitz, “2011 Set to Be Worst Year Ever for Security Breaches,” Tech News Daily, June 10, 2011, htt​p://www.techn​ewsdail​y.com​/271​0–20​11-wor​st-year-ev​er-secur​ity-brea​ches.html. 2 I first read about Narus’s technology: Narus’s 2007 press release is available at “Narus Expands Traffic Intelligence Solution to Webmail Targeting,” Narus, December 10, 2007, http​://www.nar​us.com/i​ndex.php​/overv​iew/n​arus-pr​ess-relea​ses/pr​ess-relea​ses-2​007/27​4-narus-exp​ands-traf​fic-intel​ligence-so​lution-t​o-webma​il-targe​ting. 3 its sales to Telecom Egypt: Timothy Karr discusses the use of Narus in Egypt in “One U.S. Corporation’s Role in Egypt’s Brutal Crackdown,” Huffington Post, January 28, 2011, http​://www.h​uffingto​n-pos​t.com/t​imothy-k​arr/one-u​s-corp​oration​s-role​-_​b_​815​281.html. 4 After thirty-three years of active service: In The Shock Doctrine, Naomi Klein argues that Kenneth Minihan is responsible for implementing the “disaster capitalism complex,” defined as “a fully fledged new economy in homeland security, privatised war and disaster reconstruction tasked with nothing less than building and running a privatised security state, both at home and abroad.”

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Similarly, in his book Spies for Hire, investigative journalist Tim Shorrock traces the subservience of public to private interests in the intelligence-contracting industry, an industry that specifically “serves the needs of government and its intelligence apparatus.” Shorrock writes, “In the past, Minihan said, contractors ‘used to support military operations; now we participate [in them]. We’re inextricably tied to the success of their operations.’ ” Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2007); and Tim Shorrock, Spies for Hire: The Secret World of Intelligence Outsourcing (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2008). 13: A ZERO DAY NO MORE 1 In the aftermath of the 2011 revolution: The chaos that followed the collapse of regimes in Egypt and Libya helped pry open secretive security apparatuses, revealing the extent of their international linkages.

After Zionism: One State for Israel and Palestine by Antony Loewenstein, Ahmed Moor

Boycotts of Israel, British Empire, cognitive dissonance, colonial rule, drone strike, facts on the ground, gentrification, ghettoisation, land reform, Naomi Klein, no-fly zone, one-state solution, Ronald Reagan, Rosa Parks, young professional

There was my new friend, Code Pink’s Medea Benjamin, who had worked all her life on global political issues, but who grew up in a Zionist family and had long been held by that allegiance to say as little as possible about Israel. Horrified by Gaza, she had now thrown herself into the question and was doing more than anyone else to help the Gazans, defying the Israeli siege. Naomi Klein, the bestselling author, was also galvanised by Gaza. In an appearance on the West Bank after the onslaught, she had apologised to Palestinians for her “cowardice” in not being more forthright before. These women were pioneers, but the entire community was in tumult over the question of Zionism.

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He has written for the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Huffington Post, the Guardian and Al Jazeera English and is currently pursuing a master’s degree in Public Policy at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. “Nothing will change until we are capable of imagining a radically different future. By bringing together many of the clearest and most ethical thinkers about the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, this book gives us the intellectual tools we need to do just that. Courageous and exciting.” Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine To our parents, and the Palestinians and Israelis who deserve better First published 2012 by Saqi Books Copyright © Antony Loewenstein and Ahmed Moor Copyright for individual texts rests with the authors ISBN 978-0-86356-816-9 eISBN 978-0-86356-839-8 All rights reserved.

Hiding in Plain Sight: The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America by Sarah Kendzior

4chan, Bear Stearns, Berlin Wall, Bernie Sanders, Black Lives Matter, borderless world, Brexit referendum, Cambridge Analytica, Carl Icahn, Chelsea Manning, Columbine, corporate raider, desegregation, disinformation, don't be evil, Donald Trump, drone strike, Edward Snowden, Evgeny Morozov, fake news, Ferguson, Missouri, Francis Fukuyama: the end of history, gentrification, Golden arches theory, hiring and firing, illegal immigration, income inequality, Jaron Lanier, Jeff Bezos, Jeffrey Epstein, Julian Assange, junk bonds, Michael Milken, military-industrial complex, Mohammed Bouazizi, Naomi Klein, Nelson Mandela, new economy, Oklahoma City bombing, opioid epidemic / opioid crisis, payday loans, plutocrats, public intellectual, QAnon, Robert Hanssen: Double agent, Ronald Reagan, side hustle, Silicon Valley, Skype, Steve Bannon, Thomas L Friedman, trickle-down economics, Twitter Arab Spring, unpaid internship, white flight, WikiLeaks, Y2K, zero-sum game

Its transnational nature and reliance on non–state actors who can use digital media to override borders—Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, is a prime example—means it lacks true historic precedent. Climate change is another factor that makes our current crisis distinct from any other. It is doubtful that this group of roving criminals and kleptocrats are the climate skeptics they purport to be. It is far more likely that they are, as Naomi Klein phrases it, “disaster capitalists” who see opportunity in a dying planet, and who will spare no expense in pursuit of their own preservation.16 Throughout this book, I describe how digital media has transformed state repression and citizen protest, and how globalization allowed organized crime to proliferate on an unparalleled scale.

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Sarah Kendzior, “Welcome to Donald Trump’s America,” Foreign Policy, August 3, 2016, https://foreignpolicy.com/2016/08/03/welcome-to-donald-trumps-america/. 15.   Sarah Kendzior, “Be Afraid: Trump May Have Bought the Fourth Estate,” Globe and Mail, September 9, 2016, https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/be-afraid-trump-may-have-bought-the-fourth-estate/article31789981/. 16.   Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2007). 17.   Sarah Kendzior, “We Are Heading Into Dark Times—This Is How to Be Your Own Light,” De Correspondent, November 18, 2016, https://thecorrespondent.com/5696/were-heading-into-dark-times-this-is-how-to-be-your-own-light-in-the-age-of-trump/1611114266432-e23ea1a6. 18.   

A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things: A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet by Raj Patel, Jason W. Moore

"World Economic Forum" Davos, agricultural Revolution, Anthropocene, Bartolomé de las Casas, biodiversity loss, British Empire, business cycle, call centre, Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty, carbon credits, carbon footprint, classic study, clean water, collateralized debt obligation, colonial exploitation, colonial rule, company town, complexity theory, creative destruction, credit crunch, Donald Trump, double entry bookkeeping, energy transition, European colonialism, feminist movement, financial engineering, Food sovereignty, Ford Model T, Frederick Winslow Taylor, full employment, future of work, Glass-Steagall Act, global supply chain, Haber-Bosch Process, interchangeable parts, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Joseph Schumpeter, land reform, Lewis Mumford, liberal capitalism, low interest rates, means of production, Medieval Warm Period, megacity, Mercator projection, meta-analysis, microcredit, Naomi Klein, Nixon shock, Occupy movement, peak oil, precariat, scientific management, Scientific racism, seminal paper, sexual politics, sharing economy, source of truth, South Sea Bubble, spinning jenny, strikebreaker, surplus humans, The Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen, too big to fail, trade route, transatlantic slave trade, union organizing, Upton Sinclair, wages for housework, World Values Survey, Yom Kippur War

An embarrassing list of people have read or heard slices of the book and shared how it might be improved. Deep thanks, then, to Kolya Abramsky, Rachel Bezner Kerr, Jun Borras, Zoe Brent, Chris Brooke, Harry Cleaver, Josephine Crawley-Quinn, Silvia Federici, Harriet Friedmann, Leland Glenna, Sam Grey, Shalmali Guttal, Friede Habermann, Naomi Klein, William Lacy, Phil McMichael, Daniel Moshenberg, Joe Quirk, Jackie Roth, Olivier De Schutter, Daniel Bowman Simon, John Vandermeer, and Ken Wilson for their time and wisdom. Jason: My thanks go first to my always gracious and ever insightful coauthor, Raj, for his vision that world-ecology’s relevance extends far beyond the university—and that it needs this book to do that.

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We aren’t sanguine about the future either, given polling data from the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago which found that 35 percent of baby boomers feel blacks are lazier/less hardworking than whites and that 31 percent of millennials feel the same way.123 While maintaining a healthy pessimism of the intellect, we find optimism of the will through the work of organizations that see far more mutability in social relations. Many of these groups are already tackling cheap things. Unions want higher wages. Climate change activists want to revalue our relationship to energy, and those who’ve read Naomi Klein’s work will recognize that much more must change too.124 Food campaigners want to change what we eat and how we grow it so that everyone eats well. Domestic-worker organizers want society to recognize the work done in homes and care facilities. The Occupy movement wants debt to be canceled and those threatened with foreclosure and exclusion allowed to remain in their homes.

The Great Disruption: Why the Climate Crisis Will Bring on the End of Shopping and the Birth of a New World by Paul Gilding

"World Economic Forum" Davos, airport security, Alan Greenspan, Albert Einstein, biodiversity loss, Bob Geldof, BRICs, carbon credits, carbon footprint, carbon tax, clean tech, clean water, Climategate, commoditize, corporate social responsibility, creative destruction, data science, decarbonisation, energy security, Exxon Valdez, failed state, fear of failure, geopolitical risk, income inequality, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), John Elkington, Joseph Schumpeter, market fundamentalism, mass immigration, Medieval Warm Period, Naomi Klein, negative emissions, Nelson Mandela, new economy, nuclear winter, Ocado, ocean acidification, oil shock, peak oil, Ponzi scheme, precautionary principle, purchasing power parity, retail therapy, Ronald Reagan, shareholder value, systems thinking, The Spirit Level, The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, union organizing, University of East Anglia, warehouse automation

The 1980s also saw the spectacular growth of environmental organizations around the world and strong campaigning against corporate pollution, with individual companies targeted rather than just a general push for regulation. This was the birth of campaigns targeting brands, with activists deliberately using a company’s focus on its brand as a point of vulnerability, as they did with Nike over sweatshops. Writer Naomi Klein noted: “Brand image, the source of so much corporate wealth, is also, it turns out, the corporate Achilles’ heel.”13 The more a company is a brand image, the more vulnerable it becomes to activist campaigns targeting that image. This was also the era when the seriousness of fighting for environmental protection came into sharp focus, with the murder of a Greenpeace activist by a Western government.

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Available online at http://www.csiro.au/files/files/plje.pdf. 11. Ingrid Eckerman, The Bhopal Saga—Causes and Consequences of the World’s Largest Industrial Disaster (India: Universities Press, 2005). 12. I first heard of this phrase in 1999 when used by John Passacantando, then of Ozone Action and later of Greenpeace. 13. Naomi Klein, No Logo (New York: Picador, 2002), 343. CHAPTER 3: A VERY BIG PROBLEM 1. Principle 15, Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, 1992. Available online at http://www.un.org/documents/ga/conf151/aconf15126-1annex1.htm. 2. Article 2, Framework Convention on Climate Change, 1992. Available online at http://unfcc.int. 3.

Carjacked: The Culture of the Automobile and Its Effect on Our Lives by Catherine Lutz, Anne Lutz Fernandez

"Hurricane Katrina" Superdome, barriers to entry, Bear Stearns, book value, car-free, carbon footprint, collateralized debt obligation, congestion pricing, failed state, feminist movement, Ford Model T, fudge factor, Gordon Gekko, housing crisis, illegal immigration, income inequality, inventory management, Lewis Mumford, market design, market fundamentalism, mortgage tax deduction, Naomi Klein, Nate Silver, New Urbanism, oil shock, peak oil, Ralph Nader, Ralph Waldo Emerson, ride hailing / ride sharing, The Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen, Thorstein Veblen, traffic fines, traumatic brain injury, Unsafe at Any Speed, urban planning, white flight, women in the workforce, working poor, Zipcar

As the various stimulus bills made their way through Congress in 2009 with the urgent prompt of the economic crisis, it was hardly surprising, then, that the government targeted much of the money to “shovelready” projects, which were most often roads and bridges—infrastructure for the car system. This is an example of what Naomi Klein has called “disaster capitalism,” the phenomenon in which companies garner their most massive profits in extreme or crisis conditions such as wars, earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, and housing price collapses.29 While most people saw the crisis of 2008 as comeuppance for the car industry (and it certainly was unpleasant for the tens of thousands of laid-off auto workers), it in fact helped the car industry—both directly through bailout money and indirectly (and more importantly) through massive new road and road repair subsidies that will help sustain the car system far into the future.

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Andrew Ross Sorkin, “As Political Winds Shift, Detroit Charts New Course,” New York Times, May 20, 2009. By 1969, 600,000 people were working in local, state, and federal governments exclusively on the planning, maintaining, and repairing of roads. James Howard Kunstler, The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America’s ManMade Landscape (New York: Free Press, 1993). Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2007). Surface Transportation Policy Project, “The $300 Billion Question: Are We Buying a Better Transportation System?” January 2003. www.transact.org/report.asp?id=223. CHAPTER 2 1. 2. 3. While the Mercedes sponsorship should lead us to take this claim with a grain of salt, 36 percent of a random sample of Americans with cars who were surveyed said they loved their cars.

The Pirate's Dilemma by Matt Mason

Albert Einstein, augmented reality, barriers to entry, blood diamond, citizen journalism, creative destruction, digital divide, don't be evil, Donald Trump, Douglas Engelbart, East Village, Firefox, Free Software Foundation, future of work, glass ceiling, global village, Hacker Ethic, haute couture, Howard Rheingold, Internet of things, invisible hand, Isaac Newton, jimmy wales, job satisfaction, John Markoff, John Perry Barlow, Joseph Schumpeter, Kickstarter, Lao Tzu, Marshall McLuhan, means of production, Naomi Klein, new economy, New Urbanism, patent troll, peer-to-peer, prisoner's dilemma, public intellectual, RAND corporation, RFID, Richard Florida, Richard Stallman, SETI@home, side hustle, Silicon Valley, South China Sea, Stephen Hawking, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, Steven Levy, Stewart Brand, the long tail, Tim Cook: Apple, urban sprawl, Whole Earth Catalog

When graffiti irritated subway commuters, the authorities ripped out an entire train fleet and threw it in the sea. But the negative side effects of advertising are being largely ignored. Ads are messing with our heads. “The underlying message is that culture is something that happens to you,” says Naomi Klein in No Logo. “You buy it at the Virgin Megastore or Toys ‘R’ Us and rent it at Blockbuster Video. It is not something in which you participate, or to which you have the right to respond.” But for advertising’s evil twin, graffiti, responding is a specialty. The Bubble Bursts We’ve become inundated by a daily onslaught of ads, and street artists are taking notice.

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Jennifer Scott, Heidi D’Agostino, “Beyond Stereotypes,” findings of the 2005 Dove Global study, Dove Campaign For Real Beauty, February 2006. http://www.campaignforrealbeauty.com/ DoveBeyondStereotypesWhitePaper.pdf. American Psychological Association, “Television Advertising Leads to Unhealthy Habits in Children; Says Apa Task Force,” February 23, 2004. http://www.apa .org/releases/childrenads.html. Notes | 259 Page 126 Naomi Klein, No Logo (New York: Picador, 2000), p. 178. Donella H. Meadows, “The Global Citizen,” Alertnet.org, May 15, 2000. http://www.sustainabilityinstitute.org/dhm_archive/index.php?display_article= vn8491asned. Page 127 Kalle Lasn, interview by author, May 24, 2006 (other quotes from Lasn that appear throughout this chapter are taken from the same interview).

Hype: How Scammers, Grifters, and Con Artists Are Taking Over the Internet―and Why We're Following by Gabrielle Bluestone

Adam Neumann (WeWork), Airbnb, Bellingcat, Bernie Madoff, Bernie Sanders, Big Tech, bitcoin, Black Lives Matter, Burning Man, cashless society, coronavirus, COVID-19, Donald Trump, driverless car, Elon Musk, fake it until you make it, financial thriller, forensic accounting, gig economy, global pandemic, growth hacking, high net worth, hockey-stick growth, hype cycle, Hyperloop, Kevin Roose, lock screen, lockdown, Lyft, Mark Zuckerberg, Masayoshi Son, Mason jar, Menlo Park, Multics, Naomi Klein, Netflix Prize, NetJets, Peter Thiel, placebo effect, post-truth, RFID, ride hailing / ride sharing, Russell Brand, Sand Hill Road, self-driving car, Silicon Valley, Snapchat, social distancing, SoftBank, Steve Jobs, tech billionaire, tech bro, TikTok, Tim Cook: Apple, Travis Kalanick, Uber and Lyft, uber lyft, unpaid internship, upwardly mobile, Vision Fund, WeWork

So that’s another flex for her too, where she can be like, ‘I got these, Nike gave these to me,’ because Nike is known for being very stingy with product seeding,” Sakany said. Put simply, Nike is now aspirational. Where once they sold sneakers, now they sell a lifestyle. “Nike isn’t a running shoe company,”183 writer Naomi Klein wrote in the tenth-anniversary edition of No Logo. “It is about the idea of transcendence through sports.”184 But if a shoe drops and nobody’s promoted it on social media, can you really call it cool? It’s exactly what the Fyre Festival capitalized on, using four hundred famous so-called Fyrestarters to whip up excitement about something that never existed.

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., "Here are All the Celebrities Who Were Lucky Enough to Get an Ivy Park x Adidas Box From Beyoncé," BuzzFeed, January 17, 2020, www.buzzfeed.com/terrycarter/beyonce-sent-celebrities-ivy-park-x-adidas-boxes. 181.Joan Summers, "Kim Kardashian Swears She Didn’t Mail Herself a Giant Orange Ivy Park Gift Box," Jezebel, January 29, 2020, https://jezebel.com/kim-kardashian-swears-she-didnt-mail-herself-a-giant-or-1841326278. 182.Meagan Fredette, "Kim Kardashian Finally Received Her Orange Ivy Park Box," Revelist, January 29, 2020, www.revelist.com/style-news/kim-kardashian-ivy-park/17162. 183.Jessica Jacolbe, "On Brands’ Bad Social Media," JSTOR, July 27, 2019, https://daily.jstor.org/on-brands-bad-social-media/. 184.Naomi Klein, "No Logo at 10," The Baffler, Vol. 2, No. 1 [18], pp. 30-39, 2010, https://www.jstor.org/stable/43307610?seq=1. 185.Emily Gosling, "Fyre Festival Designer Oren Aks Opens Up, Reveals Unused Designs + Bizarre Text Convos," AIGA, April 2, 2019, https://eyeondesign.aiga.org/fyre-festival-designer-oren-aks-opens-up-reveals-unused-designs-bizarre-text-convos/. 186.Aleks Eror, "What David Shapiro’s ‘Supremacist’ Teaches Us About Supreme Fuccbois," Highsnobiety, June 16, 2016, https://www.highsnobiety.com/p/david-shapiro-supremacist/. 187.Tom Peters, "The Brand Called You, Fast Company," Fast Company, August, 31, 1997, www.fastcompany.com/28905/brand-called-you. 188.Lee McIntyre, Post-Truth (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, February 16, 2018), Page: 175.

Nuclear War and Environmental Catastrophe by Noam Chomsky, Laray Polk

Alan Greenspan, American Legislative Exchange Council, British Empire, cuban missile crisis, David Ricardo: comparative advantage, energy security, Higgs boson, Howard Zinn, interchangeable parts, invisible hand, Kwajalein Atoll, language acquisition, Malacca Straits, military-industrial complex, mutually assured destruction, Naomi Klein, nuclear ambiguity, Occupy movement, oil shale / tar sands, public intellectual, Ralph Nader, Ronald Reagan, South China Sea, The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, trade route, University of East Anglia, uranium enrichment, WikiLeaks

With the publication of 9/11 in November 2001, inarguably one of the most significant books on the subject, he became as widely read and as an essential a voice internationally as other political philosophers throughout history. That book, like the present volume, was composed from interviews. Chomsky has written and lectured widely on linguistics, philosophy, intellectual history, contemporary issues, international affairs, and US foreign policy. In 2010 Chomsky, Eduardo Galeano, Michael Hardt, Naomi Klein, and Vandana Shiva became signatories to United for Global Democracy, a manifesto created by the international Occupy movement. Laray Polk was born in Oklahoma in 1961 and currently lives in Dallas, Texas. She is a multimedia artist and writer. Her articles and investigative reports have appeared in the Dallas Morning News, D Magazine, and In These Times.

Freedom by Daniel Suarez

augmented reality, big-box store, British Empire, Burning Man, business intelligence, call centre, cloud computing, corporate personhood, digital map, game design, global supply chain, illegal immigration, Naomi Klein, new economy, Pearl River Delta, plutocrats, private military company, RFID, Shenzhen special economic zone , special economic zone, speech recognition, Stewart Brand, telemarketer, the scientific method, young professional

The razorback nearest Boerner raised one sword, and Boerner hung his leather jacket upon it. He rolled up his shirtsleeves and grinned at The Major. "I do so enjoy my vork. . . ." Further Reading You can learn more about the technologies and themes explored in Freedom through the following books: Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan, Penguin Press The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein, Metropolitan Books When the Rivers Run Dry by Fred Pearce, Beacon Press The Shadow Factory by James Bamford, Doubleday When Corporations Rule the World by David C. Korten, Kumarian Press & Berrett-Koehler Publishers The Transparent Society by David Brin, Basic Books Wired for War by P. W.

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Williams, Portfolio Brave New War by John Robb, John Wiley & Sons Acknowledgments This book was quite a journey. Dramatizing the sweeping socio-economic and technological transformation of civilization required a little research. I'd like to extend my profound gratitude to: James Bamford, David Brin, Ian Cheney, Curt Ellis, Deborah Koons Garcia, Lawrence Goodwyn, Naomi Klein, David C. Korten, Fred Pearce, Michael Pollan, John Robb, and P. W. Singer whose published works informed this story in ways both great and small. The research and innovations of the following groups and institutions also aided greatly in the creation of this book: the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratories, California Institute of Technology, the people and State of Iowa, and the Ames Research Center.

Europe old and new: transnationalism, belonging, xenophobia by Ray Taras

affirmative action, anti-communist, Ayatollah Khomeini, Berlin Wall, British Empire, carbon footprint, centre right, collective bargaining, Danilo Kiš, energy security, full employment, Gunnar Myrdal, illegal immigration, immigration reform, Kickstarter, low skilled workers, mass immigration, Mikhail Gorbachev, military-industrial complex, Naomi Klein, North Sea oil, open economy, postnationalism / post nation state, Potemkin village, public intellectual, Ronald Reagan, World Values Survey

In the case of the enlarged EU, a hierarchy based on a division of labor seems to have unfolded. Eastern Europe’s part in transnationalism has been construed by antiglobalization and nationalist critics as primarily economic in nature: the region serves as a sweatshop for western member states. This is a provocative claim to make. According to Naomi Klein, “Poland, Bulgaria, Hungary, and the Czech Republic are the postmodern serfs, providing low-wage labor for the factories where clothes, electronics, and cars are produced for 20–25 per cent of the cost of making them in Western Europe.” This is a cheap-labor substitution economy. As she asked about the 74 Chapter 3 EU, “How do you stay open to business and closed to people?

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See Craig Calhoun, “The Class Consciousness of Frequent Travelers: Toward a Critique of Actually Existing Cosmopolitanism,” South Atlantic Quarterly 101, no. 4 (2002). For a different perspective, see Seyla Benhabib, Another Cosmopolitanism (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006). 51. Calhoun, “The Class Consciousness,” 872–73. 52. Calhoun, “The Class Consciousness,” 885. 53. Hedetoft, The Global Turn, 5. 54. Naomi Klein, “The Rise of the Fortress Continent,” The Nation, February 3, 2003. Metacultural Presumptions of European Elites 81 55. Angela Merkel (speech at at the official ceremony to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Treaties of Rome, March 25, 2007), www.eu2007.de/ en/News/Speeches_Interviews/March/0325BKBerliner.html. 56.

Democracy for Sale: Dark Money and Dirty Politics by Peter Geoghegan

4chan, Adam Curtis, Affordable Care Act / Obamacare, American Legislative Exchange Council, anti-globalists, basic income, Berlin Wall, Big Tech, Black Lives Matter, Boris Johnson, Brexit referendum, British Empire, Cambridge Analytica, centre right, corporate raider, crony capitalism, data science, deepfake, deindustrialization, demographic winter, disinformation, Dominic Cummings, Donald Trump, East Village, Etonian, F. W. de Klerk, fake news, first-past-the-post, Francis Fukuyama: the end of history, Frank Gehry, Greta Thunberg, invisible hand, James Dyson, Jeremy Corbyn, John Bercow, Mark Zuckerberg, market fundamentalism, military-industrial complex, moral panic, Naomi Klein, Nelson Mandela, obamacare, offshore financial centre, open borders, Overton Window, Paris climate accords, plutocrats, post-truth, post-war consensus, pre–internet, private military company, Renaissance Technologies, Robert Mercer, Ronald Reagan, Silicon Valley, Snapchat, special economic zone, Steve Bannon, surveillance capitalism, tech billionaire, technoutopianism, Torches of Freedom, universal basic income, WikiLeaks, Yochai Benkler, éminence grise

Months before the referendum, Crispin Odey, Peter Cruddas and over a hundred City executives signed an open letter that called for a slashing of red tape and radical divergence from EU standards after a Brexit vote. That massive political shocks can be used to push through radical economic change is well documented. Canadian writer Naomi Klein calls it “disaster capitalism”.73 After the Brexit vote, the language of disaster was often used by British politicians and commentators, although often in a positive sense, as an opportunity for collective renewal through suffering. Forgotten in the evocations of Dunkirk and the Blitz were the spivs of the 1940s who made a fortune on the black market.

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, Guardian, November 2015. 70 Caroline Wheeler and Rosamund Urwin, ‘Boris Johnson’s donor Crispin Odey eyes Brexit jackpot with £300m bet against British firms’, The Times, August 2019. 71 Stefan Boscia, ‘Conservatives break election donations record while unions turn on the taps for Labour’, City A.M., November 2019. 72 Seth Thévoz and Peter Geoghegan, ‘Revealed: Russian donors have stepped up Tory funding’, openDemocracy, November 2019. 73 Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (London, 2008). 74 William Davies, ‘England’s rentier alliance is driving support for a no-deal Brexit’, New Statesman, August 2019. 75 Ashley Cowburn, ‘Jacob Rees-Mogg’s investment firm opens second Ireland fund but insists it “has nothing to do with Brexit”’, Independent, July 2018. 76 David Edgerton, ‘Brexit is a necessary crisis – it reveals Britain’s true place in the world’, Guardian, October 2019. 77 Matthew Elliott and James Kanagasooriam, ‘Public opinion in the post-Brexit era: Economic attitudes in modern Britain’, Legatum Institute, October 2017.

Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste: How Neoliberalism Survived the Financial Meltdown by Philip Mirowski

"there is no alternative" (TINA), Adam Curtis, Alan Greenspan, Alvin Roth, An Inconvenient Truth, Andrei Shleifer, asset-backed security, bank run, barriers to entry, Basel III, Bear Stearns, behavioural economics, Berlin Wall, Bernie Madoff, Bernie Sanders, Black Swan, blue-collar work, bond market vigilante , bread and circuses, Bretton Woods, Brownian motion, business cycle, capital controls, carbon credits, Carmen Reinhart, Cass Sunstein, central bank independence, cognitive dissonance, collapse of Lehman Brothers, collateralized debt obligation, complexity theory, constrained optimization, creative destruction, credit crunch, Credit Default Swap, credit default swaps / collateralized debt obligations, crony capitalism, dark matter, David Brooks, David Graeber, debt deflation, deindustrialization, democratizing finance, disinformation, do-ocracy, Edward Glaeser, Eugene Fama: efficient market hypothesis, experimental economics, facts on the ground, Fall of the Berlin Wall, financial deregulation, financial engineering, financial innovation, Flash crash, full employment, George Akerlof, Glass-Steagall Act, Goldman Sachs: Vampire Squid, Greenspan put, Hernando de Soto, housing crisis, Hyman Minsky, illegal immigration, income inequality, incomplete markets, information asymmetry, invisible hand, Jean Tirole, joint-stock company, junk bonds, Kenneth Arrow, Kenneth Rogoff, Kickstarter, knowledge economy, l'esprit de l'escalier, labor-force participation, liberal capitalism, liquidity trap, loose coupling, manufacturing employment, market clearing, market design, market fundamentalism, Martin Wolf, money market fund, Mont Pelerin Society, moral hazard, mortgage debt, Naomi Klein, Nash equilibrium, night-watchman state, Northern Rock, Occupy movement, offshore financial centre, oil shock, Pareto efficiency, Paul Samuelson, payday loans, Philip Mirowski, Phillips curve, Ponzi scheme, Post-Keynesian economics, precariat, prediction markets, price mechanism, profit motive, public intellectual, quantitative easing, race to the bottom, random walk, rent-seeking, Richard Thaler, road to serfdom, Robert Shiller, Robert Solow, Ronald Coase, Ronald Reagan, Savings and loan crisis, savings glut, school choice, sealed-bid auction, search costs, Silicon Valley, South Sea Bubble, Steven Levy, subprime mortgage crisis, tail risk, technoutopianism, The Chicago School, The Great Moderation, the map is not the territory, The Myth of the Rational Market, the scientific method, The Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen, The Wisdom of Crowds, theory of mind, Thomas Kuhn: the structure of scientific revolutions, Thorstein Veblen, Tobin tax, tontine, too big to fail, transaction costs, Tyler Cowen, vertical integration, Vilfredo Pareto, War on Poverty, Washington Consensus, We are the 99%, working poor

It may be the case that even those who feel they have a good working knowledge of political theory need to revisit the entire question of neoliberalism, if only to better focus upon the incongruity of the neoliberals coming out of the crisis stronger than when they were paving the way for its onset. It is one thing to glibly appeal to a nefarious “Shock Doctrine” (see Naomi Klein), it is another to comprehend in detail how the reckoning was evaded: something here dubbed the “Shock Block Doctrine.” Neoliberalism is alive and well; those on the receiving end need to know why. Questions as to its existence, its efficacy, and its vulnerability to refutation lie at the heart of the concerns that motivate this chapter.

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These suggest a degree of coherence and stability deriving from both continuity of intellectual tradition and persistence of community boundary work, the sum total of which is capable of supporting analytical generalizations about the movement. Clearly, neoliberals do not navigate with a fixed static Utopia as the astrolabe for all their political strivings. They could not, since they don’t even agree on such basic terms as “market” and “freedom” in all respects, as we shall observe below. One can even agree with Brenner et al. and Naomi Klein that crisis is the preferred field of action for neoliberals, since that offers more latitude for introduction of bold experimental ‘reforms’ that only precipitate further crises down the road.68 Nevertheless, Neoliberalism does not dissolve into a gormless empiricism or random pragmatism. There persists a certain logic to the way it approaches crises; and that is directly relevant to comprehending its unexpected strength in the current global crisis.

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Latter-day followers of Galbraith bring various counterexamples to the table, such as the recent policy to suppress cigarette advertising in the United States, but to no avail.86 Curiously enough, given that it bulks so large in everyday life, the average person still ardently believes that all that expenditure and all that effort to manage their desires is essentially impotent, and by implication, wasted. Neoliberals, as one might expect, have come to concoct a much more plausible justification of the phenomenon. They have carefully read and absorbed their leftist critics, from Thorstein Veblen to Naomi Klein, and far from rejecting them outright, they openly use their ideas to render the process of persuasion both more unconscious and more effective.87 Neoliberals have pioneered the signal innovation of importing the double-truth character of their project into the everyday lives of the common man.

Extreme Money: Masters of the Universe and the Cult of Risk by Satyajit Das

"RICO laws" OR "Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations", "there is no alternative" (TINA), "World Economic Forum" Davos, affirmative action, Alan Greenspan, Albert Einstein, algorithmic trading, Andy Kessler, AOL-Time Warner, Asian financial crisis, asset allocation, asset-backed security, bank run, banking crisis, banks create money, Basel III, Bear Stearns, behavioural economics, Benoit Mandelbrot, Berlin Wall, Bernie Madoff, Big bang: deregulation of the City of London, Black Swan, Bonfire of the Vanities, bonus culture, book value, Bretton Woods, BRICs, British Empire, business cycle, buy the rumour, sell the news, capital asset pricing model, carbon credits, Carl Icahn, Carmen Reinhart, carried interest, Celtic Tiger, clean water, cognitive dissonance, collapse of Lehman Brothers, collateralized debt obligation, corporate governance, corporate raider, creative destruction, credit crunch, Credit Default Swap, credit default swaps / collateralized debt obligations, currency risk, Daniel Kahneman / Amos Tversky, deal flow, debt deflation, Deng Xiaoping, deskilling, discrete time, diversification, diversified portfolio, Doomsday Clock, Dr. Strangelove, Dutch auction, Edward Thorp, Emanuel Derman, en.wikipedia.org, Eugene Fama: efficient market hypothesis, eurozone crisis, Everybody Ought to Be Rich, Fall of the Berlin Wall, financial engineering, financial independence, financial innovation, financial thriller, fixed income, foreign exchange controls, full employment, Glass-Steagall Act, global reserve currency, Goldman Sachs: Vampire Squid, Goodhart's law, Gordon Gekko, greed is good, Greenspan put, happiness index / gross national happiness, haute cuisine, Herman Kahn, high net worth, Hyman Minsky, index fund, information asymmetry, interest rate swap, invention of the wheel, invisible hand, Isaac Newton, James Carville said: "I would like to be reincarnated as the bond market. You can intimidate everybody.", job automation, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Bogle, John Meriwether, joint-stock company, Jones Act, Joseph Schumpeter, junk bonds, Kenneth Arrow, Kenneth Rogoff, Kevin Kelly, laissez-faire capitalism, load shedding, locking in a profit, Long Term Capital Management, Louis Bachelier, low interest rates, margin call, market bubble, market fundamentalism, Market Wizards by Jack D. Schwager, Marshall McLuhan, Martin Wolf, mega-rich, merger arbitrage, Michael Milken, Mikhail Gorbachev, Milgram experiment, military-industrial complex, Minsky moment, money market fund, Mont Pelerin Society, moral hazard, mortgage debt, mortgage tax deduction, mutually assured destruction, Myron Scholes, Naomi Klein, National Debt Clock, negative equity, NetJets, Network effects, new economy, Nick Leeson, Nixon shock, Northern Rock, nuclear winter, oil shock, Own Your Own Home, Paul Samuelson, pets.com, Philip Mirowski, Phillips curve, planned obsolescence, plutocrats, Ponzi scheme, price anchoring, price stability, profit maximization, proprietary trading, public intellectual, quantitative easing, quantitative trading / quantitative finance, Ralph Nader, RAND corporation, random walk, Ray Kurzweil, regulatory arbitrage, Reminiscences of a Stock Operator, rent control, rent-seeking, reserve currency, Richard Feynman, Richard Thaler, Right to Buy, risk free rate, risk-adjusted returns, risk/return, road to serfdom, Robert Shiller, Rod Stewart played at Stephen Schwarzman birthday party, rolodex, Ronald Reagan, Ronald Reagan: Tear down this wall, Satyajit Das, savings glut, shareholder value, Sharpe ratio, short selling, short squeeze, Silicon Valley, six sigma, Slavoj Žižek, South Sea Bubble, special economic zone, statistical model, Stephen Hawking, Steve Jobs, stock buybacks, survivorship bias, tail risk, Teledyne, The Chicago School, The Great Moderation, the market place, the medium is the message, The Myth of the Rational Market, The Nature of the Firm, the new new thing, The Predators' Ball, The Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen, The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, Thorstein Veblen, too big to fail, trickle-down economics, Turing test, two and twenty, Upton Sinclair, value at risk, Yogi Berra, zero-coupon bond, zero-sum game

In every crisis, policy makers argue that people’s life savings and pension entitlements are at risk if the system is not bailed out. No one asks who put them at risk in the first place. Bankers’ excuses are of someone having murdered their parents seeking clemency on the grounds that he is an orphan. The social activist Naomi Klein termed it disaster capitalism.15 Having unknowingly underwritten a system allowing banks to generate vast private profits, ordinary men and women were forced to bear the cost of bailing out banks. As his friend Dink tells author Joe Bageant: “Sounds like a piss-poor solution to me, cause they’re just throwing money we ain’t got at the big dogs who already got plenty.

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Mervyn King, Governor of the Bank of England, Speech to the CBI Dinner (20 January 2009), East Midlands Conference Centre, Nottingham. 14. Senator Jim Bunning, Statement to the Senate Banking Committee on the Federal Reserve Monetary Policy Report (15 July 2008), Senate Banking Committee. 15. Naomi Klein (2008) The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, Picador, New York. 16. Joe Bageant (2007) Deer Hunting with Jesus: Despatches from America’s Class War, Scribe Publications, Melbourne: viii. 17. F. Scott Fitzgerald (1973) The Great Gatsby, Penguin Books, London: 186. 18. Quoted in Charles P.

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John Kay (2004) The Truth About Markets: Why Some Nations Are Rich But Most Remain Poor, Penguin Books, London. John Kay (2009) The Long and the Short of It: Finance and Investment for Normally Intelligent People Who Are Not in the Industry, Erasmus, London. Charles P. Kindelberger (1978) Manias, Panics and Crashes: A History of Financial Crisis, Basic Books, New York. Naomi Klein (2008) The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, Picador, New York. Jonathan A. Knee (2007) The Accidental Investment Banker, John Wiley, Chichester. Richard C. Koo (2008) The Holy Grail of Macro Economics: Lessons from Japan’s Great Recession, John Wiley, Singapore. Jesse Kornbluth (1992) Highly Confident: The Crime and Punishment of Michael Milken, William Morrow & Co.

The End of Power: From Boardrooms to Battlefields and Churches to States, Why Being in Charge Isn’t What It Used to Be by Moises Naim

"World Economic Forum" Davos, additive manufacturing, AOL-Time Warner, barriers to entry, Berlin Wall, bilateral investment treaty, business cycle, business process, business process outsourcing, call centre, citizen journalism, Clayton Christensen, clean water, collapse of Lehman Brothers, collective bargaining, colonial rule, conceptual framework, corporate governance, creative destruction, crony capitalism, deskilling, disinformation, disintermediation, disruptive innovation, don't be evil, Evgeny Morozov, failed state, Fall of the Berlin Wall, financial deregulation, Francis Fukuyama: the end of history, illegal immigration, immigration reform, income inequality, income per capita, intangible asset, intermodal, invisible hand, job-hopping, Joseph Schumpeter, Julian Assange, Kickstarter, Lewis Mumford, liberation theology, Martin Wolf, mega-rich, megacity, military-industrial complex, Naomi Klein, Nate Silver, new economy, Northern Rock, Occupy movement, open borders, open economy, Peace of Westphalia, plutocrats, price mechanism, price stability, private military company, profit maximization, prosperity theology / prosperity gospel / gospel of success, radical decentralization, Ronald Coase, Ronald Reagan, seminal paper, Silicon Valley, Skype, Steve Jobs, The Nature of the Firm, Thomas Malthus, too big to fail, trade route, transaction costs, Twitter Arab Spring, vertical integration, Washington Consensus, WikiLeaks, World Values Survey, zero-sum game

, the notion of a resurgent elite further strengthening its hold on government is very much alive. In 2008, days after the massive US bank bailout was announced and a few short weeks after the collapse of Lehman Brothers and the rescue of the insurance giant American International Group (AIG), the critic Naomi Klein described the era as “a revolt of the elites . . . and an incredibly successful one.” She argued that both the long neglect of financial regulation and the sudden bailout reflected elite control over policy. And she suggested that a common trend in the concentration of power linked together major countries with seemingly opposed political and economic systems.

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Eisenhower’s speech is available online at http://www.h-net.org/~hst306/documents/indust.html. 29. Domhoff, Who Rules America? Challenges to Corporate and Class Dominance. 30. Christopher Lasch, “The Revolt of the Elites: Have They Canceled Their Allegiance to America?” Harper’s, November 1994. 31. Klein’s talk is available online at http://fora.tv/2008/10/20/Naomi_Klein_and_Joseph_Stiglitz_on_Economic_Power#fullprogram. 32. Simon Johnson, “The Quiet Coup,” Atlantic, May 2009, http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2009/05/the-quiet-coup/7364/. See also Johnson and Kwak, 13 Bankers. CHAPTER FOUR 1. Interview with Javier Solana, Washington, DC, May 2012. 2.

What's Left?: How Liberals Lost Their Way by Nick Cohen

"hyperreality Baudrillard"~20 OR "Baudrillard hyperreality", anti-communist, Ayatollah Khomeini, Berlin Wall, Boycotts of Israel, British Empire, centre right, critical race theory, DeepMind, disinformation, Etonian, failed state, Fall of the Berlin Wall, Farzad Bazoft, feminist movement, government statistician, Great Leap Forward, haute couture, kremlinology, liberal world order, light touch regulation, mass immigration, military-industrial complex, moral hazard, Naomi Klein, no-fly zone, plutocrats, post-industrial society, profit motive, public intellectual, Ralph Nader, road to serfdom, Ronald Reagan, Scientific racism, sensible shoes, the scientific method, union organizing, upwardly mobile, Yom Kippur War

This was not just the view of one little-read academic reviewing the work of another. Foucault himself argued that liberal democracy was the worst form of tyranny. The Enlightenment that Westerners imagined had freed them had in fact enslaved them in insidious ways that Westerners were too stupid to see – with the exception of French philosophers. In Naomi Klein’s No Logo, the best-selling leftish book of the millennium, modern ‘capitalism’ was an almost supernatural force. ‘In ways both insidious and overt,’ she wrote, ‘this corporate obsession with brand identity is waging a war on public and individual space: on public institutions such as schools, on youthful identities, on the concept of nationality and on the possibilities for unmarketed space.’

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Scott Armstrong, ‘Unintelligible Management Research and Academic Prestige’, Interfaces, vol. 10, no. 2, April 1980, pp. 80–6. 99 ‘No one denies the need’ Denis Dutton, ‘Language Crimes: A Lesson in How Not to Write, Courtesy of the Professoriate’, Wall Street Journal, 5 February 1999. 100 ‘artificially difficult style’ Frank Lentricchia and Thomas McLaughlin (eds), Critical Terms for Literary Study, 2nd edn, Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1995. 101 ‘Ah – so that’s it’ Ophelia Benson, ‘Bad Writing’, butterfliesandwheels.com 102 ‘Narayan’s preoccupations with’ Azfar Hussain, Review of Uma Narayan, Dis/locating Cultures/Identities, Traditions, and Third World Feminism, 1997, Rocky Mountain E-Review, vol. 54, no. 2, Fall 2000. 103 ‘would be exceedingly…Yes’ Robert Conquest: Reflections on a Ravaged Century, London: John Murray, 1999, pp. 9–11. 106 ‘There is no such’ Quoted in Richard Wolin, The Seduction of Unreason, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004, p. 287. 107 ‘an Islamic movement’ Wesley Yang, ‘The Philosopher and the Ayatollah’, Boston Globe, 12 June 2005. 109 ‘In ways both’ Naomi Klein, ‘Introduction’, in No Logo, London: Flamingo, 2000. 110 ‘Disneyland is presented’ Quoted in Wolin, The Seduction of Unreason, p. 305. 111 ‘In Butler, resistance’ Martha Nussbaum, ‘The Professor of Parody’, New Republic, 22 February 1999. 114 ‘The ideas of’ J. M. Keynes, ‘Concluding Notes’, in The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, London: Macmillan & Co., 1936. 115 ‘wrong to force’ Simon Blackburn, ‘The Lie of the Land’, Financial Times, 28 July 2006. 117 who ‘demonised’ Mugabe John Vidal, ‘Monster of the Moment’, Guardian, 1 July 2005. 119 ‘They operate on’ John Lloyd, The Protest Ethic, London: Demos, 2001, p. 11. 125 ‘Its cloying self-regard’ Ian McEwan, Saturday’, London: Jonathan Cape, 2005, p. 72.

The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson

Admiral Zheng, Alan Greenspan, An Inconvenient Truth, Andrei Shleifer, Asian financial crisis, asset allocation, asset-backed security, Atahualpa, bank run, banking crisis, banks create money, Bear Stearns, Black Monday: stock market crash in 1987, Black Swan, Black-Scholes formula, Bonfire of the Vanities, Bretton Woods, BRICs, British Empire, business cycle, capital asset pricing model, capital controls, Carmen Reinhart, Cass Sunstein, central bank independence, classic study, collateralized debt obligation, colonial exploitation, commoditize, Corn Laws, corporate governance, creative destruction, credit crunch, Credit Default Swap, credit default swaps / collateralized debt obligations, currency manipulation / currency intervention, currency peg, Daniel Kahneman / Amos Tversky, deglobalization, diversification, diversified portfolio, double entry bookkeeping, Edmond Halley, Edward Glaeser, Edward Lloyd's coffeehouse, equity risk premium, financial engineering, financial innovation, financial intermediation, fixed income, floating exchange rates, Fractional reserve banking, Francisco Pizarro, full employment, Future Shock, German hyperinflation, Greenspan put, Herman Kahn, Hernando de Soto, high net worth, hindsight bias, Home mortgage interest deduction, Hyman Minsky, income inequality, information asymmetry, interest rate swap, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Isaac Newton, iterative process, James Carville said: "I would like to be reincarnated as the bond market. You can intimidate everybody.", John Meriwether, joint-stock company, joint-stock limited liability company, Joseph Schumpeter, junk bonds, Kenneth Arrow, Kenneth Rogoff, knowledge economy, labour mobility, Landlord’s Game, liberal capitalism, London Interbank Offered Rate, Long Term Capital Management, low interest rates, market bubble, market fundamentalism, means of production, Mikhail Gorbachev, Modern Monetary Theory, Money creation, money market fund, money: store of value / unit of account / medium of exchange, moral hazard, mortgage debt, mortgage tax deduction, Myron Scholes, Naomi Klein, National Debt Clock, negative equity, Nelson Mandela, Nick Bostrom, Nick Leeson, Northern Rock, Parag Khanna, pension reform, price anchoring, price stability, principal–agent problem, probability theory / Blaise Pascal / Pierre de Fermat, profit motive, quantitative hedge fund, RAND corporation, random walk, rent control, rent-seeking, reserve currency, Richard Thaler, risk free rate, Robert Shiller, rolling blackouts, Ronald Reagan, Savings and loan crisis, savings glut, seigniorage, short selling, Silicon Valley, South Sea Bubble, sovereign wealth fund, spice trade, stocks for the long run, structural adjustment programs, subprime mortgage crisis, tail risk, technology bubble, The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, The Wisdom of Crowds, Thomas Bayes, Thomas Malthus, Thorstein Veblen, tontine, too big to fail, transaction costs, two and twenty, undersea cable, value at risk, W. E. B. Du Bois, Washington Consensus, Yom Kippur War

Yet it is far from clear that American legislators are ready to take on the liabilities implied by a further extension of public insurance. Total non-insured damages arising from hurricanes in 2005 are likely to end up costing the federal government at least $109 billion in post-disaster assistance and $8 billion in tax relief, nearly three times the estimated insurance losses.6 According to Naomi Klein, this is symptomatic of a dysfunctional ‘Disaster Capitalism Complex’, which generates private profits for some, but leaves taxpayers to foot the true costs of catastrophe.7 In the face of such ruinous bills, what is the right way to proceed? When insurance fails, is the only alternative, in effect, to nationalize all natural disasters - creating a huge open-ended liability for governments?

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Scruggs, ‘Hurricane Katrina: Issues and Observations’, American Enterprise Institute-Brookings Judicial Symposium, ‘Insurance and Risk Allocation in America: Economics, Law and Regulation’, Georgetown Law Center, 20-22 September 2006. 4 Details from http://www.usa.gov/Citizen/Topics/PublicSafety/Hurricane_Katrina_Recovery.shtml, http://katrina.louisiana.gov/index. html and http://www.ldi.state.la.us/HurricaneKatrina.htm. 5 Peter Lattman, ‘Plaintiffs Laywer Scruggs is Indicted on Bribery Charges’, Wall Street Journal, 29 November 2007; Ashby Jones and Paulo Prada, ‘Richard Scruggs Pleads Guilty’, ibid., 15 March 2008. 6 King, ‘Hurricane Katrina’, p. 4. 7 Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (New York, 2007). 8 http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/pastdec.shtml. 9 John Schwartz, ‘One Billion Dollars Later, New Orleans is Still at Risk’, New York Times, 17 August 2007. 10 Michael Lewis, ‘In Nature’s Casino’, New York Times Magazine, 26 August 2007. 11 National Safety Council, ‘What are the Odds of Dying?’

This Land: The Struggle for the Left by Owen Jones

Berlin Wall, Bernie Sanders, Black Lives Matter, Boris Johnson, Boycotts of Israel, Brexit referendum, call centre, capitalist realism, collapse of Lehman Brothers, Corn Laws, coronavirus, COVID-19, deindustrialization, Dominic Cummings, Donald Trump, European colonialism, falling living standards, first-past-the-post, Francis Fukuyama: the end of history, George Floyd, gig economy, green new deal, housing crisis, Jeremy Corbyn, lockdown, market fundamentalism, Naomi Klein, Neil Kinnock, Nelson Mandela, offshore financial centre, open borders, quantitative easing, race to the bottom, rent control, short selling, The Spirit Level, War on Poverty

Their placards and banners summed it up: ‘Our Resistance Is As Global As Their Capital’; ‘Say No To The WTO’; and most enduringly – in a defiant, desperately hopeful rejection of capitalist realism – ‘Another World Is Possible’. These movements were diffuse and disconnected and, without the ability to build a coherent alternative to the established order, their moment soon passed. Nonetheless, they revealed a deep well of discontent with the established order, and new radical voices – Naomi Klein’s No Logo, a cri de coeur against modern consumer capitalism, became the defining book of a generation – found a mass audience. These movements were, in retrospect, the first concerted attempt to throw off the suffocating blanket of market triumphalism. Then came the atrocity of 9/11. In the following months and years, the anti-capitalist movement was knocked off course.

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He began his journalistic career editing the radical Straight Left magazine and, even as British and global politics shifted right, stayed true to his beliefs. A stint as the Guardian’s labour correspondent in the 1990s deepened his already strong trade union links, and his appointment as comment editor in 2001 provoked furious consternation among New Labour-aligned columnists. According to iconic Canadian writer Naomi Klein, the paper’s comment section under Seumas Milne became a ‘truly global debating forum’, with even Conservative politician Daniel Hannan lauding him for taking ‘full advantage of the Guardian’s comment pages’ and ‘making them the most thought-provoking opinion in Britain’. For me, as a teenager growing up in a suffocating political environment – the age of ‘The End of History’ – Milne was, along with other dissenting writers such as Gary Younge and Klein, a political life raft, a rare example of someone who used their media platform to challenge vociferously the prevailing political consensus.

Liberalism at Large: The World According to the Economist by Alex Zevin

"there is no alternative" (TINA), activist fund / activist shareholder / activist investor, affirmative action, Alan Greenspan, anti-communist, Asian financial crisis, bank run, Berlin Wall, Big bang: deregulation of the City of London, Bretton Woods, British Empire, business climate, business cycle, capital controls, carbon tax, centre right, Chelsea Manning, collective bargaining, Columbine, Corn Laws, corporate governance, corporate social responsibility, creative destruction, credit crunch, David Ricardo: comparative advantage, debt deflation, desegregation, disinformation, disruptive innovation, do well by doing good, Donald Trump, driverless car, Edward Snowden, failed state, Fall of the Berlin Wall, financial deregulation, financial innovation, Francis Fukuyama: the end of history, full employment, Gini coefficient, Glass-Steagall Act, global supply chain, guns versus butter model, hiring and firing, imperial preference, income inequality, interest rate derivative, invisible hand, It's morning again in America, Jeremy Corbyn, John von Neumann, Joseph Schumpeter, Julian Assange, junk bonds, Khartoum Gordon, land reform, liberal capitalism, liberal world order, light touch regulation, Long Term Capital Management, low interest rates, market bubble, Martin Wolf, means of production, Michael Milken, Mikhail Gorbachev, Monroe Doctrine, Mont Pelerin Society, moral hazard, Naomi Klein, new economy, New Journalism, Nixon triggered the end of the Bretton Woods system, no-fly zone, Norman Macrae, Northern Rock, Occupy movement, Philip Mirowski, plutocrats, post-war consensus, price stability, quantitative easing, race to the bottom, railway mania, rent control, rent-seeking, road to serfdom, Ronald Reagan, Rosa Parks, Seymour Hersh, Snapchat, Socratic dialogue, Steve Bannon, subprime mortgage crisis, Suez canal 1869, Suez crisis 1956, The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, Thomas Malthus, too big to fail, trade liberalization, trade route, unbanked and underbanked, underbanked, unorthodox policies, upwardly mobile, War on Poverty, WikiLeaks, Winter of Discontent, Yom Kippur War, young professional

See ‘The Case for Globalisation’, 23 September 2000. 49.‘Pro Logo: The Case for Brands’, 8 September 2001; Naomi Klein, 15 September 2001. ‘Pro Logo’ argued that brands were a blessing, ensuring quality, convenience, choice and consumer protection and accountability. And people liked them. A letter from Klein appeared the next week. But this was buried in the issue of 15 September 2001. The next time she merited a verbal flogging, she had been demoted to a small column in the business section where the level of threat she now posed was indicated by the title, ‘Face Value: Why Naomi Klein Needs to Grow Up’, 9 November 2002. 50.‘Americans without Bank Accounts: Into the Fold’, 6 May 2006.

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These would ‘not give that Indian child a better life’, and ‘tying trade to rules that forbid her from working will not help her either: that way lies greater poverty, not a better education.’48 In a sign of how concerned Crook and other editors were about the growth of anti-globalization sentiment in these years (a fact obscured by what came after), on 11 September 2001 – the day two planes crashed into the World Trade Center in Manhattan – the Economist on newsstands had nothing to do with Middle Eastern terrorists. In red, white and black, the cover read ‘Pro Logo’, and savaged the Canadian activist Naomi Klein for her ‘utterly wrong-headed’ No Logo (1999), the best-selling ‘bible of the anti-globalisation movement’.49 For his part, Emmott spied untrammelled vistas for financial innovation until the end. In his last signed piece in 2006, he hailed US banks for entering sectors served only by payday lenders and pawnbrokers.

What We Need to Do Now: A Green Deal to Ensure a Habitable Earth by Chris Goodall

blockchain, carbon footprint, carbon tax, circular economy, decarbonisation, energy transition, Extinction Rebellion, food miles, green new deal, Greta Thunberg, Haber-Bosch Process, hydroponic farming, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), it's over 9,000, Kickstarter, microplastics / micro fibres, moral hazard, Naomi Klein, negative emissions, Ocado, ocean acidification, plant based meat, smart grid, smart meter

The UK-based economist looks at how countries can best allocate capital towards projects that improve low carbon infrastructure. Jonathan Ford in the Financial Times summarised Pettifor’s conclusions by saying that ‘she sees the nation state as eminently capable of financing decarbonisation’. Naomi Klein, On Fire: The Burning Case for a Green New Deal (Allen Lane, 2019). Klein brings a transatlantic perspective and a more radical emphasis on changing the very structure of our economies. She argues that conventional capitalism is incapable of dealing with the threat from climate breakdown. In this book I have tried to argue for a more moderate stance, not because of any faith in the ethical standards of corporations, but rather a conviction that rapid growth of zero carbon alternatives depends on the managerial and innovation skills of conventional large companies.

Culture and Prosperity: The Truth About Markets - Why Some Nations Are Rich but Most Remain Poor by John Kay

Alan Greenspan, Albert Einstein, Asian financial crisis, Barry Marshall: ulcers, behavioural economics, Berlin Wall, Big bang: deregulation of the City of London, Bletchley Park, business cycle, California gold rush, Charles Babbage, complexity theory, computer age, constrained optimization, corporate governance, corporate social responsibility, correlation does not imply causation, Daniel Kahneman / Amos Tversky, David Ricardo: comparative advantage, Donald Trump, double entry bookkeeping, double helix, Dr. Strangelove, Dutch auction, Edward Lloyd's coffeehouse, electricity market, equity premium, equity risk premium, Ernest Rutherford, European colonialism, experimental economics, Exxon Valdez, failed state, Fairchild Semiconductor, financial innovation, flying shuttle, Ford Model T, Francis Fukuyama: the end of history, George Akerlof, George Gilder, Goodhart's law, Great Leap Forward, greed is good, Gunnar Myrdal, haute couture, Helicobacter pylori, illegal immigration, income inequality, industrial cluster, information asymmetry, intangible asset, invention of the telephone, invention of the wheel, invisible hand, John Meriwether, John Nash: game theory, John von Neumann, junk bonds, Kenneth Arrow, Kevin Kelly, knowledge economy, Larry Ellison, light touch regulation, Long Term Capital Management, loss aversion, Mahatma Gandhi, market bubble, market clearing, market fundamentalism, means of production, Menlo Park, Michael Milken, Mikhail Gorbachev, money: store of value / unit of account / medium of exchange, moral hazard, Myron Scholes, Naomi Klein, Nash equilibrium, new economy, oil shale / tar sands, oil shock, Pareto efficiency, Paul Samuelson, pets.com, Phillips curve, popular electronics, price discrimination, price mechanism, prisoner's dilemma, profit maximization, proprietary trading, purchasing power parity, QWERTY keyboard, Ralph Nader, RAND corporation, random walk, rent-seeking, Right to Buy, risk tolerance, road to serfdom, Robert Solow, Ronald Coase, Ronald Reagan, Savings and loan crisis, second-price auction, shareholder value, Silicon Valley, Simon Kuznets, South Sea Bubble, Steve Jobs, Stuart Kauffman, telemarketer, The Chicago School, The Market for Lemons, The Nature of the Firm, the new new thing, The Predators' Ball, The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, Thorstein Veblen, total factor productivity, transaction costs, tulip mania, urban decay, Vilfredo Pareto, Washington Consensus, women in the workforce, work culture , yield curve, yield management

Development required the simultaneous establishment of a shoe factory, a clothing factory, a bicycle factory. Shoe workers could use their income to buy clothes and bicycles, and bicycle workers would buy shoes. A planning agency could coordinate this simultaneous development. Fifty years later, anticapitalist journalist and author Naomi Klein visited a shoe factory in the Philippines. 11 She did not find it a pleasant experience, and no sensitive person from a rich state would. Most employees of the factory were young women, daughters of peasant families. They worked long hours under tight discipline for low wages, living in small dormitories shared by four or six people.

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Workers and managers stole from the plant. The Morogoro plant was designed like a modern Western shoe factory, with aluminium walls and no ventilation system, inappropriate for the Tanzanian climate. The Morogoro shoe factory never operated at more than 5% of capacity and never exported a single shoe. It closed in 1990. Naomi Klein did not need to go to the Philippines to see the unpleasantness of early-stage industrialization. She could have read accounts of conditions in English factories during the industrial revolution, or Korean economic development in the 1950s. What she saw Culture and Prosperity { 281} in the Philippines was Rostow's "takeoff" as it had been in England and Korea.

Vanishing New York by Jeremiah Moss

activist lawyer, back-to-the-city movement, Bernie Sanders, big-box store, Black Lives Matter, Bonfire of the Vanities, bread and circuses, Broken windows theory, complexity theory, creative destruction, David Brooks, deindustrialization, Donald Trump, East Village, food desert, gentrification, global pandemic, housing crisis, illegal immigration, invisible hand, Jane Jacobs, junk bonds, late capitalism, Lewis Mumford, market fundamentalism, Mason jar, McMansion, means of production, megaproject, military-industrial complex, mirror neurons, Naomi Klein, neoliberal agenda, New Economic Geography, new economy, New Urbanism, Occupy movement, place-making, plutocrats, Potemkin village, RAND corporation, rent control, rent stabilization, Richard Florida, Ronald Reagan, Skype, starchitect, the built environment, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, the High Line, The Spirit Level, trickle-down economics, urban decay, urban renewal, W. E. B. Du Bois, white flight, young professional

The ideology crystallized in the 1990s, and by the dawn of the twenty-first century it had become a fait accompli of globalized life, largely unquestioned, barely visible, and resistant to critique. It has become the air we breathe. Both Democrat and Republican, neoliberals believe in the unfettered free market, deregulation, privatization, reduction in government, and trickle-down economics. They often deny that this powerful system even exists. As Naomi Klein points out in The Shock Doctrine, “the ideology is a shape-shifter, forever changing its name and switching identities.” Call it free-market fundamentalism, globalization, free trade, laissez-faire, it’s all neoliberalism. Its followers will tell you that its effects are natural and inevitable.

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The people of New York, frightened and traumatized, put their trust in Giuliani’s judgment, allowing themselves to be convinced that only a billionaire CEO could dig Wall Street from the rubble, captivate the tourists, and avoid social chaos. New York, we were told, was in danger of going back to the “bad old days” of the 1970s. People were scared. In The Shock Doctrine, Naomi Klein reveals the way neoliberal politicians and economists exploit crisis to force their agenda. She speaks to the national impact of 9/11 when she says, “What happened in the period of mass disorientation after the attacks was, in retrospect, a domestic form of economic shock therapy.” I would add that nowhere was that mass disorientation more profound than in New York City.

The Production of Money: How to Break the Power of Banks by Ann Pettifor

Alan Greenspan, Ben Bernanke: helicopter money, Bernie Madoff, Bernie Sanders, bitcoin, blockchain, bond market vigilante , borderless world, Bretton Woods, capital controls, Carmen Reinhart, central bank independence, clean water, credit crunch, Credit Default Swap, cryptocurrency, David Graeber, David Ricardo: comparative advantage, debt deflation, decarbonisation, distributed ledger, Donald Trump, eurozone crisis, fiat currency, financial deregulation, financial engineering, financial innovation, financial intermediation, financial repression, fixed income, Fractional reserve banking, full employment, Glass-Steagall Act, green new deal, Hyman Minsky, inflation targeting, interest rate derivative, invisible hand, John Maynard Keynes: Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren, Joseph Schumpeter, Kenneth Rogoff, Kickstarter, land bank, Leo Hollis, light touch regulation, London Interbank Offered Rate, low interest rates, market fundamentalism, Martin Wolf, mobile money, Money creation, Naomi Klein, neoliberal agenda, offshore financial centre, Paul Samuelson, Ponzi scheme, Post-Keynesian economics, pushing on a string, quantitative easing, rent-seeking, Satyajit Das, savings glut, secular stagnation, The Chicago School, the market place, Thomas Malthus, Tobin tax, too big to fail

G8 politicians, led by Britain’s Gordon Brown, at first co-operated at an international level to stabilise the system. That co-operation and an internationally co-ordinated stimulus quickly evaporated. Worldwide, politicians and policy-makers fell back on, or were once more talked into, orthodox policies for stabilisation, most notably fiscal consolidation. As Naomi Klein had warned, many in the finance sector quickly understood the crisis as an opportunity to reinforce the global financial system’s grip on elected governments and markets. After some hesitation they jumped at this opportunity, in contrast to much of the Left, or the social democratic parties. No fundamental changes were made to the international financial architecture.

Where We Are: The State of Britain Now by Roger Scruton

bitcoin, blockchain, Brexit referendum, business cycle, Corn Laws, Donald Trump, Downton Abbey, Fellow of the Royal Society, fixed income, garden city movement, George Akerlof, housing crisis, invention of the printing press, invisible hand, Jeremy Corbyn, Khartoum Gordon, mass immigration, Naomi Klein, New Journalism, old-boy network, open borders, payday loans, Peace of Westphalia, sceptred isle, The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, Thorstein Veblen, too big to fail, Tragedy of the Commons, web of trust

The anonymity of the global economy goes hand in hand with a certain spectral quality – a sense that the agents behind every transaction are not creatures of flesh and blood who live in communities but discarnate corporations, who take no real responsibility for producing what they sell but who merely stick their brand on it, so claiming a rent on producer and consumer alike. It is difficult to articulate this complaint, though it has been made, with varying degrees of sarcasm, by a century of writers from Thorstein Veblen to Naomi Klein – the argument advancing step by step in order to accommodate the latest move towards anonymity. This economy is not dislocated, as the nineteenth-century socialists imagined, but unlocated. Yet it is for this very reason that it troubles us. Economic activity has become detached from the building of communities.

Future Perfect: The Case for Progress in a Networked Age by Steven Johnson

Airbus A320, airport security, algorithmic trading, banking crisis, barriers to entry, Bernie Sanders, call centre, Captain Sullenberger Hudson, Cass Sunstein, Charles Lindbergh, classic study, cognitive dissonance, credit crunch, crowdsourcing, dark matter, Dava Sobel, David Brooks, Donald Davies, Evgeny Morozov, Fairchild Semiconductor, future of journalism, Great Leap Forward, high-speed rail, hive mind, Howard Rheingold, HyperCard, Jane Jacobs, John Gruber, John Harrison: Longitude, Joi Ito, Kevin Kelly, Kickstarter, lone genius, Mark Zuckerberg, mega-rich, meta-analysis, Naomi Klein, Nate Silver, Occupy movement, packet switching, peer-to-peer, Peter Thiel, planetary scale, pre–internet, private spaceflight, radical decentralization, RAND corporation, risk tolerance, seminal paper, shareholder value, Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley startup, social graph, SpaceShipOne, Steve Jobs, Steven Pinker, Stewart Brand, systems thinking, techno-determinism, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, the long tail, Tim Cook: Apple, urban planning, US Airways Flight 1549, WikiLeaks, William Langewiesche, working poor, X Prize, Yochai Benkler, your tax dollars at work

Emergence was not explicitly a political book, but I included the Seattle protests on the last pages as a nod toward a future in which social change would increasingly be shaped by these leaderless networks. I was not alone in sensing a meaningful connection between the Seattle protesters and the decentralized peer networks of the digital age. Writing in The Nation at the time, Naomi Klein had observed, “What emerged on the streets of Seattle and Washington was an activist model that mirrors the organic, interlinked pathways of the Internet.” It seemed clear to some of us at that early stage that the model of information sharing that the Internet had popularized was too potent and protean not to spawn offline organizational structures that emulated its core qualities.

Collaborative Futures by Mike Linksvayer, Michael Mandiberg, Mushon Zer-Aviv

4chan, AGPL, Benjamin Mako Hill, British Empire, citizen journalism, cloud computing, collaborative economy, corporate governance, crowdsourcing, Debian, Eben Moglen, en.wikipedia.org, fake news, Firefox, informal economy, jimmy wales, Kickstarter, late capitalism, lolcat, loose coupling, Marshall McLuhan, means of production, Naomi Klein, Network effects, optical character recognition, packet switching, planned obsolescence, postnationalism / post nation state, prediction markets, Richard Stallman, semantic web, Silicon Valley, slashdot, Slavoj Žižek, stealth mode startup, technoutopianism, The future is already here, the medium is the message, The Wisdom of Crowds, web application, WikiLeaks, Yochai Benkler

Now we see a new model emerge—a distributed networked collaboration of interested individuals contributing digital labor, not just money. The political vacuum presented by these natural or man made crises leave room for a strong active force that o en enforces a new political and economic reality. In her book titled The Shock Doctrine, author Naomi Klein describes how governments and businesses have exploited instances of political and economic instabilities in recent decades to dictate a neo-liberal agenda. In each case the interested powers were the first on the scene, imposing rigid rules of engagement and coordination, and justifying enforcement by the need to restore order. 101 In contrast, the activists are providing the tools and the know how for data production and aggregation.

Affluenza: When Too Much Is Never Enough by Clive Hamilton, Richard Denniss

call centre, death from overwork, delayed gratification, experimental subject, full employment, hedonic treadmill, impulse control, karōshi / gwarosa / guolaosi, low interest rates, Mahatma Gandhi, McMansion, mega-rich, Naomi Klein, Own Your Own Home, post-materialism, post-work, purchasing power parity, retail therapy, The Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen, Thorstein Veblen, trickle-down economics, wage slave, work culture

Indeed, Western culture can be described as a marketing culture and, as we will see, the advent of the marketing society is strongly correlated with the rise in depression, anxiety, obesity and a range of other disorders. The marketing culture is indispensable to the daily spread of affluenza. In her book No Logo, Naomi Klein describes the process whereby producers of consumer goods progressively offload all aspects of the actual manufacturing process by contracting out, especially to factories in the Third World. They concentrate their efforts on creating and sustaining the intangible features of consumer products that give them most of their value, that is, the brand.

On Palestine by Noam Chomsky, Ilan Pappé, Frank Barat

Boycotts of Israel, British Empire, cognitive dissonance, conceptual framework, David Brooks, facts on the ground, failed state, ghettoisation, Naomi Klein, Nelson Mandela, one-state solution, Stephen Hawking

Reading and feeling enlightened by those books really played a big part in changing my vision of life and what it was supposed to mean. I started with reading Chomsky and slowly became very interested in anything that had to do with Israel/Palestine. Reading Edward Said, Mahmoud Darwish, Ghassan Kanafani, John Berger, Tanya Reinhart, Ilan Pappé, Norman Finkelstein, Noam Chomsky, Kurt Vonnegut, Arundhati Roy, Naomi Klein . . . all became part of my daily routine. Books changed me and I think that they are, more than anything else, one of the best tools we can use to learn, reflect on, and truly understand the world we are living in. They are a bridge between languages, continents, and people. A book will accompany you and will stay with you, it will mark you like nothing else.

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff

"World Economic Forum" Davos, algorithmic bias, Amazon Web Services, Andrew Keen, augmented reality, autonomous vehicles, barriers to entry, Bartolomé de las Casas, behavioural economics, Berlin Wall, Big Tech, bitcoin, blockchain, blue-collar work, book scanning, Broken windows theory, California gold rush, call centre, Cambridge Analytica, Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty, Cass Sunstein, choice architecture, citizen journalism, Citizen Lab, classic study, cloud computing, collective bargaining, Computer Numeric Control, computer vision, connected car, context collapse, corporate governance, corporate personhood, creative destruction, cryptocurrency, data science, deep learning, digital capitalism, disinformation, dogs of the Dow, don't be evil, Donald Trump, Dr. Strangelove, driverless car, Easter island, Edward Snowden, en.wikipedia.org, Erik Brynjolfsson, Evgeny Morozov, facts on the ground, fake news, Ford Model T, Ford paid five dollars a day, future of work, game design, gamification, Google Earth, Google Glasses, Google X / Alphabet X, Herman Kahn, hive mind, Ian Bogost, impulse control, income inequality, information security, Internet of things, invention of the printing press, invisible hand, Jean Tirole, job automation, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Markoff, John Maynard Keynes: Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren, John Maynard Keynes: technological unemployment, Joseph Schumpeter, Kevin Kelly, Kevin Roose, knowledge economy, Lewis Mumford, linked data, longitudinal study, low skilled workers, Mark Zuckerberg, market bubble, means of production, multi-sided market, Naomi Klein, natural language processing, Network effects, new economy, Occupy movement, off grid, off-the-grid, PageRank, Panopticon Jeremy Bentham, pattern recognition, Paul Buchheit, performance metric, Philip Mirowski, precision agriculture, price mechanism, profit maximization, profit motive, public intellectual, recommendation engine, refrigerator car, RFID, Richard Thaler, ride hailing / ride sharing, Robert Bork, Robert Mercer, Salesforce, Second Machine Age, self-driving car, sentiment analysis, shareholder value, Sheryl Sandberg, Shoshana Zuboff, Sidewalk Labs, Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley ideology, Silicon Valley startup, slashdot, smart cities, Snapchat, social contagion, social distancing, social graph, social web, software as a service, speech recognition, statistical model, Steve Bannon, Steve Jobs, Steven Levy, structural adjustment programs, surveillance capitalism, technological determinism, TED Talk, The Future of Employment, The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, Tim Cook: Apple, two-sided market, union organizing, vertical integration, Watson beat the top human players on Jeopardy!, winner-take-all economy, Wolfgang Streeck, work culture , Yochai Benkler, you are the product

See Larry Diamond, “Facing Up to the Democratic Recession,” Journal of Democracy 26, no. 1 (2015): 141–55, https://doi.org/10.1353/jod.2015.0009. 63. Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (New York: Picador, 2007); Erik Olin Wright, Envisioning Real Utopias (London: Verso, 2010); Wendy Brown, Edgework: Critical Essays on Knowledge and Politics (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005); Gerald F. Davis, Managed by the Markets: How Finance Re-shaped America (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011). 64. Immanuel Wallerstein et al., Does Capitalism Have a Future? (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013); Erik Olin Wright, Envisioning Real Utopias (London: Verso, 2010); Naomi Klein, This Changes Everything: Capitalism Vs. the Climate (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2015); Wendy Brown, Edgework: Critical Essays on Knowledge and Politics (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005); Davis, Managed by the Markets; Wolfgang Streeck, “On the Dismal Future of Capitalism,” Socio-Economic Review 14, no. 1 (2016): 164–70; Craig Calhoun, “The Future of Capitalism,” Socio-Economic Review 14, no. 1 (2016): 171–76; Polly Toynbee, “Unfettered Capitalism Eats Itself,” Socio-Economic Review 14, no. 1 (2016): 176–79; Amitai Etzioni, “The Next Industrial Revolution Calls for a Different Economic System,” Socio-Economic Review 14, no. 1 (2016): 179–83. 65.

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With tremendous lucidity and moral courage, Zuboff demonstrates not only how our minds are being mined for data but also how they are being rapidly and radically changed in the process. The hour is late and much has been lost already—but as we learn in these indispensable pages, there is still hope for emancipation.” —Naomi Klein, author of This Changes Everything and No Logo, and Gloria Steinem Chair in Media, Culture, and Feminist Studies at Rutgers University “Zuboff is a strikingly original voice, simultaneously bold and wise, eloquent and passionate, learned and accessible. Read this book to understand the inner workings of today’s digital capitalism, its threats to twenty-first-century society, and the reforms we must make for a better tomorrow.”

Marx at the Arcade: Consoles, Controllers, and Class Struggle by Jamie Woodcock

4chan, Alexey Pajitnov wrote Tetris, anti-work, antiwork, augmented reality, barriers to entry, battle of ideas, Boris Johnson, Build a better mousetrap, butterfly effect, call centre, capitalist realism, collective bargaining, Columbine, conceptual framework, cuban missile crisis, David Graeber, deindustrialization, deskilling, Donald Trump, emotional labour, game design, gamification, gentrification, gig economy, glass ceiling, global supply chain, global value chain, Hacker Ethic, Howard Zinn, Ian Bogost, independent contractor, Jeremy Corbyn, John Conway, Kickstarter, Landlord’s Game, late capitalism, Marshall McLuhan, means of production, microaggression, military-industrial complex, Minecraft, mutually assured destruction, Naomi Klein, Oculus Rift, pink-collar, planned obsolescence, scientific management, sexual politics, Silicon Valley, SimCity, Steve Bannon, systems thinking, tech worker, union organizing, unpaid internship, V2 rocket, WarGames: Global Thermonuclear War

Our authors include Noam Chomsky, Arundhati Roy, Rebecca Solnit, Angela Y. Davis, Howard Zinn, Amy Goodman, Wallace Shawn, Mike Davis, Winona LaDuke, Ilan Pappé, Richard Wolff, Dave Zirin, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Nick Turse, Dahr Jamail, David Barsamian, Elizabeth Laird, Amira Hass, Mark Steel, Avi Lewis, Naomi Klein, and Neil Davidson. We are also the trade publishers of the acclaimed Historical Materialism Book Series and of Dispatch Books.

The Climate Book: The Facts and the Solutions by Greta Thunberg

"World Economic Forum" Davos, accounting loophole / creative accounting, air freight, Alfred Russel Wallace, Anthropocene, basic income, Bernie Sanders, biodiversity loss, BIPOC, bitcoin, British Empire, car-free, carbon credits, carbon footprint, carbon tax, circular economy, clean water, cognitive dissonance, coronavirus, COVID-19, David Attenborough, decarbonisation, degrowth, disinformation, energy transition, Extinction Rebellion, Food sovereignty, global pandemic, global supply chain, Global Witness, green new deal, green transition, Greta Thunberg, housing crisis, Indoor air pollution, informal economy, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), invisible hand, Jeff Bezos, land tenure, late capitalism, lockdown, mass immigration, megacity, meta-analysis, microplastics / micro fibres, military-industrial complex, Naomi Klein, negative emissions, ocean acidification, offshore financial centre, oil shale / tar sands, out of africa, phenotype, planetary scale, planned obsolescence, retail therapy, rewilding, social distancing, supervolcano, tech billionaire, the built environment, Thorstein Veblen, TikTok, Torches of Freedom, Tragedy of the Commons, universal basic income, urban sprawl, zoonotic diseases

Mann / Atmospheric Science at Penn State, IPCC contributor, and author of many books, including The New Climate War. 5.13 A Genuine Emergency Response Seth Klein / Team lead with the Climate Emergency Unit and author of A Good War: Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency. 5.14 Lessons from the Pandemic David Wallace-Wells / New York Times Opinion writer and magazine columnist.Author of The Uninhabitable Earth. 5.15 ‘Honesty, solidarity, integrity and climate justice’ / Greta Thunberg 5.16 A Just Transition Naomi Klein / Journalist and bestselling author; UBC Professor of Climate Justice and Co-director of the Centre for Climate Justice at the University of British Columbia. 5.17 What Does Equity Mean to You Nicki Becker / Law student and climate justice activist from Argentina.Co-founder of Jovenes por el Clima; active in Fridays For Future MAPA.

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It means taking full responsibility for historical emissions. It means that polluters pay. It means including all our actual emissions in our statistics, including consumption, imports, exports, shipping, aviation, military and biogenic emissions. It means honesty, solidarity, integrity and climate justice. / 5.16 A Just Transition Naomi Klein Most of us have learned to think about political change in defined compartments: environment in one box; inequality in another; racial and gender justice in a couple more. Education over here. Health over there. And within each compartment, there are thousands upon thousands of different groups and organizations, often competing with one another for credit, name recognition and, of course, resources.

The Internet Is a Playground by David Thorne

anti-globalists, Dunning–Kruger effect, Large Hadron Collider, late fees, Naomi Klein, peer-to-peer, Silicon Valley, Steve Jobs

Regards, David From: Roz Knorr Date: Wednesday 14 October 2009 11:16 a.m. To: David Thorne Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Adelaide loser You wouldn’t know the first thing about charity or giving back to the community. People from Adelaide don’t do anything for the underprivileged in society. Go read Naomi Klein’s 1999 book “No Logo” and join the ant-globalist movement & start defacing corporate posters in public places with political statements, or visit a sweat shop with 7 year olds in Mexico & blog about it. Until then you are just another selfish parasite taking from this planet. Watch your back. I leave for New York in my private plain this afternoon so I don’t have any time for anymore of your pathetic hick town nonsense.

Minimal: How to Simplify Your Life and Live Sustainably by Madeleine Olivia

Airbnb, An Inconvenient Truth, BIPOC, carbon footprint, clean water, climate anxiety, Extinction Rebellion, food desert, food miles, hustle culture, Mason jar, microplastics / micro fibres, Naomi Klein, ocean acidification

Resources For more information on all the topics discussed in this book find me online: Madeleine Olivia www.madeleineolivia.co.uk @MadeleineOlivia DOCUMENTARIES Before the Flood www.beforetheflood.com Chasing Coral www.chasingcoral.com @chasingcoral Cowspiracy www.cowspiracy.com @cowspiracy Earthlings www.nationearth.com @EarthlingsMovie An Inconvenient Truth www.algore.com @algore Minimalism: A Documentary www.theminimalists.com @TheMinimalists The Need to Grow grow.foodrevolution.org @TheNeedToGrow Our Planet www.ourplanet.com @ourplanet A Plastic Ocean www.aplasticocean.movie The True Cost www.truecostmovie.com @truecostmovie BOOKS Michael Braungart and William McDonough, Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things (Vintage, 2009) Martin Dorey, No. More. Plastic (Ebury Press, 2018) Kathryn Kellogg, 101 Ways to Go Zero Waste (Countryman Press, 2019) Naomi Klein, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs the Climate (Penguin Books, 2015) Elizabeth Kolbert, Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature and Climate Change (Bloomsbury, 2015) Mary Kondo, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing (Vermilion, 2014) Grey McKeown, Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less (Virgin Books, 2014) Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto (Penguin Books, 2009) Jonathan Safran Foer, Eating Animals (Penguin Books, 2011) Lucy Siegle, To Die For: Is Fashion Wearing Out the World?

Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield by Jeremy Scahill

active measures, air freight, Andy Carvin, anti-communist, blood diamond, business climate, citizen journalism, colonial rule, crowdsourcing, disinformation, Donald Trump, drone strike, failed state, false flag, friendly fire, Google Hangouts, independent contractor, indoor plumbing, information security, Islamic Golden Age, Kickstarter, land reform, Mohammed Bouazizi, Naomi Klein, operational security, private military company, Project for a New American Century, rolodex, Ronald Reagan, Saturday Night Live, Seymour Hersh, Strategic Defense Initiative, WikiLeaks

Michael Ratner and Karen Ranucci have been so generous in their support and with their love for so many years. Thank you also to the great Michael Moore for giving me one of my first “real” jobs and for always supporting my work. Oliver Stone and John Cusack have offered support, encouragement and wisdom at key moments. My dear friend Naomi Klein has always been there for me through good times and bad. She and Avi Lewis are a great force for justice. Anamaria Segura and Phil Tisne have brightened my life. Muchas gracias also to Jorge and Clemencia Segura for all of their love and support. Wallace Segura is a scholar among scholars. Emma Kelton-Lewis and Daniel Avery have been tremendously generous in their personal support, as have Claire and Rennie Alba.

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Allen, Principal,” Chertoff Group, accessed October 5, 2012, http://chertoffgroup.com/bios/charles-allen.php. 18 “happy to pull the trigger”: 9/11 Commission Report, p. 211. 18 September 4 meeting: Ibid., p. 213. 18 three years to implement: Ibid. 18 “‘broad covert action program’”: Ibid., p. 214. 18 “Only a crisis”: Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom, 40th anniv. ed. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002), Preface, 1982, p. xiv. 18 mentored Rumsfeld: Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (New York: Picador, 2007), p. 14. 18 Cheney, sought his counsel: Nina Easton, “Why Is Dick Cheney Smiling?” Money.CNN.com, November 25, 2007. 19 “When that crisis occurs”: Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom, Preface, 1982, p. xiv. 19 “a new Pearl Harbor”: “Rebuilding America’s Defenses,” p. 51. 19 “duty to use his bully pulpit”: Feith, War and Decision, p. 51. 19 “all necessary and appropriate force”: Joint Resolution to Authorize the Use of United States Armed Forces Against Those Responsible for the Recent Attacks Launched Against the United States, Pub.

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Paul Bremer III, with Malcolm McConnell, My Year in Iraq: The Struggle to Build a Future of Hope (New York: Threshold Editions, 2006), pp. 6–7. 111 “paramount authority figure”: Ibid., p. 2. 111 brainchild: Ibid., p. 37. Bremer describes Defense Secretary Rumsfeld as giving him his “marching orders” to proceed with de-Baathification, with Feith doing the groundwork. 111 “Order 1”: Naomi Klein, “Baghdad Year Zero,” Harper’s, September 2004. 111 “450,000 enemies”: David Rieff, “Blueprint for a Mess,” New York Times Magazine, November 2, 2003. 111 “We are going to fight them”: Transcript, Interview with L. Paul Bremer III, Breakfast with Frost, BBC, June 29, 2003, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/breakfast_with_frost/3029904.stm. 111 “My fellow Americans”: Transcript, “Remarks by the President from the USS Abraham Lincoln,” May 1, 2003. 111 were killed: Ann Scott Tyson, “Anatomy of the Raid on Hussein’s Sons,” Christian Science Monitor, July 24, 2003. 111 “the phrase ‘guerrilla war’”: Transcript, “DoD News Briefing—Secretary Rumsfeld and Gen.

The Age of the Infovore: Succeeding in the Information Economy by Tyler Cowen

Albert Einstein, Asperger Syndrome, autism spectrum disorder, behavioural economics, business cycle, Cass Sunstein, cognitive bias, David Brooks, en.wikipedia.org, endowment effect, Flynn Effect, folksonomy, framing effect, Google Earth, Gregor Mendel, impulse control, informal economy, Isaac Newton, loss aversion, Marshall McLuhan, Naomi Klein, neurotypical, new economy, Nicholas Carr, pattern recognition, phenotype, placebo effect, Richard Thaler, selection bias, Silicon Valley, social intelligence, the medium is the message, The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, theory of mind, Tyler Cowen

The association of diversity with national boundaries or with regional geography is built into a great deal of the contemporary discussion of globalization, both among scholars and in the popular arena. If the nation of France becomes more like the nation of Germany, there is a presumption that “cultural diversity” has gone down. When people in Bangkok started wearing blue jeans and thus neglected native modes of dress, a wide array of commentators, from Naomi Klein to Benjamin Barber, suggest that such instances show a decline in cultural diversity. These writers asked how much one geographical region differs from another, and using that benchmark, they judged the progress of cultural diversity. But why should we focus on the form of diversity that lines up so closely with physical space, national boundaries, and “face time”?

How to Run the World: Charting a Course to the Next Renaissance by Parag Khanna

"World Economic Forum" Davos, Albert Einstein, Asian financial crisis, back-to-the-land, bank run, blood diamond, Bob Geldof, borderless world, BRICs, British Empire, call centre, carbon footprint, carbon tax, charter city, clean tech, clean water, cloud computing, commoditize, congestion pricing, continuation of politics by other means, corporate governance, corporate social responsibility, Deng Xiaoping, Doha Development Round, don't be evil, double entry bookkeeping, energy security, European colonialism, export processing zone, facts on the ground, failed state, financial engineering, friendly fire, global village, Global Witness, Google Earth, high net worth, high-speed rail, index fund, informal economy, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), invisible hand, Kickstarter, Kiva Systems, laissez-faire capitalism, Live Aid, Masdar, mass immigration, megacity, Michael Shellenberger, microcredit, military-industrial complex, mutually assured destruction, Naomi Klein, Nelson Mandela, New Urbanism, no-fly zone, off grid, offshore financial centre, oil shock, One Laptop per Child (OLPC), open economy, out of africa, Parag Khanna, private military company, Productivity paradox, race to the bottom, RAND corporation, reserve currency, Salesforce, Silicon Valley, smart grid, South China Sea, sovereign wealth fund, special economic zone, sustainable-tourism, Ted Nordhaus, The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid, The Wisdom of Crowds, too big to fail, trade liberalization, trickle-down economics, UNCLOS, uranium enrichment, Washington Consensus, X Prize

It’s cynical to claim that celebrities divert attention from those truly responsible for atrocities or poverty when they attempt to shine the spotlight on precisely those who are in charge—and it’s naïve to think those who are responsible on paper will act responsibly in practice. Author and activist Naomi Klein dismisses the “Bono-ization” of protest because it is less dangerous and less powerful than street protests. But the trouble with this logic is that the rich have never stormed their governments on behalf of the poor. That some intellectuals and politicians feel insecure about the prominence of celebrities pressuring them while educating the masses is deeply disturbing.

After the New Economy: The Binge . . . And the Hangover That Won't Go Away by Doug Henwood

"World Economic Forum" Davos, accounting loophole / creative accounting, affirmative action, Alan Greenspan, AOL-Time Warner, Asian financial crisis, barriers to entry, Benchmark Capital, book value, borderless world, Branko Milanovic, Bretton Woods, business cycle, California energy crisis, capital controls, corporate governance, corporate raider, correlation coefficient, credit crunch, deindustrialization, dematerialisation, deskilling, digital divide, electricity market, emotional labour, ending welfare as we know it, feminist movement, fulfillment center, full employment, gender pay gap, George Gilder, glass ceiling, Glass-Steagall Act, Gordon Gekko, government statistician, greed is good, half of the world's population has never made a phone call, income inequality, indoor plumbing, intangible asset, Internet Archive, job satisfaction, joint-stock company, Kevin Kelly, labor-force participation, Larry Ellison, liquidationism / Banker’s doctrine / the Treasury view, low interest rates, manufacturing employment, Mary Meeker, means of production, Michael Milken, minimum wage unemployment, Naomi Klein, new economy, occupational segregation, PalmPilot, pets.com, post-work, profit maximization, purchasing power parity, race to the bottom, Ralph Nader, rewilding, Robert Gordon, Robert Shiller, Robert Solow, rolling blackouts, Ronald Reagan, shareholder value, Silicon Valley, Simon Kuznets, statistical model, stock buybacks, structural adjustment programs, tech worker, Telecommunications Act of 1996, telemarketer, The Bell Curve by Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray, The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, total factor productivity, union organizing, War on Poverty, warehouse automation, women in the workforce, working poor, zero-sum game

It's easy to see how even privately held assets of that more conventional sort can contribute to social wealth; unless they belong to a bomb factory, their produce can make people better off (even if the profits they generate are appropriated by a handful of managers and shareholders). But a "brand," as Naomi Klein (1999, p. 22) put it in No Logo, is a kind of "collective hallucination." Branders put a positive spin on these mass delusions. Ad agency Young & Rubicam identified them as "the new reH-gion," a source of "meaning" (Tomkins 2001). Today's brand builders, said Y&R, "could be compared to the missionaries who spread Christianity and Islam around the world."

Sex, Lies, and Pharmaceuticals: How Drug Companies Plan to Profit From Female Sexual Dysfunction by Ray Moynihan, Barbara Mintzes

business intelligence, clean water, meta-analysis, moral panic, Naomi Klein, New Journalism, placebo effect, profit motive, Ralph Nader, systematic bias