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Cato Video • July 2, 2008 

# Johan Norberg discusses the successes of economic freedom. 

Naomi Klein’s recent book, *The Shock Doctrine*, points to the cases in which authoritarian regimes liberalized their economies. Johan Norberg, in his recent analysis, “[The Klein Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Polemics](https://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9384),” shows that most countries have liberalized over the last three decades and capitalism is given rise to many of the ends that Klein herself would appreciate. 

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