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Synopsis: Naomi Klein gives a lecture tracing the confluence of ideas about modifying behavior using shock therapy and other sensory deprivation and modifying national economics using the "shock treatment" of Milton Friedman and the Chicago School. She moves chronologically: Pinochet's Chile, Argentina and its junta, Yeltsin's Russia, Bush and Bremer's Iraq. A trumped-up villain provides distraction or rationalization: Marxism, the Falklands, nuclear weapons, terrorists; and, always, there is a great shift of money and power from the many to the few. News footage, a narrator, and talking heads back up Klein's analysis. She concludes on a note of hope.
Genre: Documentary
Production: Sundance Selects
 
IMDB:
7.7
Rotten Tomatoes:
64%
NOT RATED
Year:
2009
79 min
970 Views


Milton Friedman, from this university, waged a war against the "New Deal".

Friedman was member of a group called the Mount Pellerin Society,

led by the austrian economist Friederich von Hayek.

They believed that if governments stopped providing services,

and stopped regulating markets,

economy would correct itself.

In the 50's they where seen as kranks

But the las 30 years

their ideas had become but dominant economic doctrine.

The thesis of the "Shock doctrine" is

that we've been sold a fairy tale

about how this radical policies have swept the world.

That they haven't swept the globe on the backs of freedom and democracy

but they have needed shock, they have needed crisis, they have needed states of emergency.

Milton Friedman understood the utility of crisis.

Only a crisis, actual or percieved, produces real change.

When that crisis occurs

the actions that are taken, depends on the ideas that are laying around.

La Primera Prueba:. Chile

It was in Chile, that Friedman's disciples first learned

how to exploit a large scale shock or crisis.

University of Chile

Usually, the official story tellers of neoliberalism, the official publicists

don't even mention Chile.

They start the story with Thatcher and Reagan, because it's much more flattering that way.

In the 50's and 60's

Chile's progressive developmental policies were a beacon in the region.

Government invested in health, education and industry.

American corporations were worried their investments would suffer.

In response, the US state department

began sponsoring students form Chile and the rest of South America

to study free market economics with Milton Friedman.

The University of Chicago had an agreement

with the Catholic Univesity of Chile

through which a great many Chilean students came to the University of Chicago

they were trained by us and recieved PhD

These students went back and tought in Chile.

The economics department of the Catholic University in Santiago

became a little Chicago School.

Arnold Harberger, the economist in charge of the program

described himself as a "seriously dedicated missionary".

In 1970, Salvador Allende's Popular Unity government

won the election on a platform of nationalisation of large sectors of the economy.

Chile's phone company was majority owned by US corporation ITT.

ITT headed the attempts to stop Allende to become president

it had the support of president Richard Nixon in the White House.

I was not ther, but i can

tell you what we now know to be a fact.

He ordered the CIA to prevent Allende from assuming the presidency.

Indeed, they tried to get me to lean on the chilean military

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Naomi Klein

Naomi Klein (born May 8, 1970) is a Canadian author, social activist, and filmmaker known for her political analyses and criticism of corporate globalization and of capitalism. She first became known internationally for her book No Logo (1999); The Take (2004), a documentary film about Argentina’s occupied factories, written by Klein and directed by her husband Avi Lewis; and significantly for The Shock Doctrine (2007), a critical analysis of the history of neoliberal economics that was adapted into a six-minute companion film by Alfonso and Jonás Cuarón, as well as a feature-length documentary by Michael Winterbottom.This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate (2014) was a New York Times Bestseller List non-fiction bestseller and the winner of the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction in its year. In 2016 Klein was awarded the Sydney Peace Prize for her activism on climate justice. Klein frequently appears on global and national lists of top influential thinkers, including the 2014 Thought Leaders ranking compiled by the Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute, Prospect magazine's world thinkers 2014 poll, and Maclean's 2014 Power List. She is a member of the board of directors of the climate activist group 350.org. more…

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