47. Jan Arild Snoen, "Skolene i New Orleans trengte
61. Ebenstein, p. 232.
sjokkterapi," Dagbladet, September 28, 2007. Klein
62. Klein, The Shock Doctrine, p. 307.
mentions that "many African-American parents" in
New Orleans oppose more choice in education
63. Ibid., p. 299.
because they see it as "a way of reversing the gains of
the civil rights movement." She doesn't mention
64. Ibid., p. 298.
that African Americans are the group most sympa-
thetic to school vouchers nationally. A survey last
65. Ibid., p. 355.
year showed that 45 percent of the general popula-
tion and 68 percent of African Americans were in
66. Ibid., p. 355.
favor of vouchers. William G. Howell, Martin R.
West, and Paul E. Peterson, "What Americans
67. Ibid, pp. 15, 322.
Think about Their Schools," Education Next 7, no 4,
(2007).
68. Ibid., p. 322.
48. John Williamson, "What Washington Means
69. Ibid., p. 15.
by Policy Reform," in Latin American Adjustment:
How Much has Happened? ed. John Williamson
70. Irving Kristol, Reflections of a Neoconservative
(Washington: Peterson Institute for International
(New York: Basic Books, 1983), p. 77; Irving Kristol,
Economics, April 1990).
"The Neoconservative Persuasion," Weekly Stand-
ard, August 25, 2003.
49. Klein, The Shock Doctrine, p. 256f.
71. Klein, The Shock Doctrine, p. 316.
50. Ibid., pp. 187, 190.
72. Ibid., p. 140.
51. See for instance Liu Xiaobo et al., "June 2
Declaration of a Hunger Strike," in China's Search
73. Milton Friedman, "Which Way for Capitalism?"
for Democracy: The Student and Mass Movement of
Reason, May 1978.
1989, ed. Suzanne Ogden et al. (Armonk, NY: M.
E. Sharpe, 1992).
74. Milton Friedman, Free to Choose 1: The Power of
the Market, 1980.
52. Jonathan Fenby, "The Tiananmen Square Peg,"
Comment Is Free, September 10, 2007, http://com
75. Klein, The Shock Doctrine, p. 286.
mentisfree.guardian.co.uk/jonathan_fenby/
2007/09/the_tiananmen_square_peg.html.
76. Friedman and Friedman, Two Lucky People, p.
593.
53. Klein, p. 189.
77. Klein, The Shock Doctrine, pp. 15, 231.
54. Ibid., p. 190.
78. John Maynard Keynes, "Foreword to the Ger-
55. Ibid., p. 191.
man Edition," General Theory, http://tmh.floonet.
net/articles/foregt.html. For Klein's own apprecia-
56. Gwartney and Lawson, 2007.
tion of Keynes, see Klein, pp. 5357.
57. Robert Higgs, Crisis and Leviathan (New York:
79. Klein, The Shock Doctrine, p. 456.
Oxford University Press, 1987).
80. Ibid., pp. 104, 443.
58. Milton Friedman, "Friedman's Heresy Hits
Mainstream," interview with Carolyn Lockhead,
81. Ibid., p. 461.
San Francisco Chronicle, June 5, 2005.
82. Naomi Klein, "Bring Najaf to New York," The
59. Stephen Slivinski, Buck Wild: How Republicans
Nation, September 13, 2004. To criticize Klein
Broke the Bank and Became the Party of Big Government
with her own methods one could also make a big
(Nashville: Nelson Current, 2006), p. 149.
fuss about the fact that her European anti-global-
ization friends are called ATTAC.
60. See http://www.clubforgrowth.org/2006/11
/new_poll_people_want_limited_g.php. Klein
83. In passing, she explains that genuine democ-
writes as if Friedman were in favor of Republican
racy presupposes "fair rules preventing corpora-
power, even though he has consistently spoken
tions from buying elections" (The Shock Doctrine, p.
out in favor of divided government as the best
134), which seems to suggest that it takes some
way to control the government.
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