Word: capitalisme
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In your research did you find that you are the first person to come up with such a theory? People spontaneously started using "disaster capitalism" to describe what was happening with what they were seeing around them because it was so clear that this disaster was being harnessed to push...
What the book is doing that's new is it is connecting these contemporary capitalisms, which I think most of us can easily see in Iraq and in New Orleans, and saying actually this isn't just some twisted invention of the Bush White House. That actually there is a...
In the book you frequently take the idea of "disaster capitalism" back to Milton Friedman. So is this his fault? Milton Friedman is held up as really the guru of the modern global market. But my view on Friedman is, I don't think it's his fault in the...
You mention tons of different instances in which "disaster capitalism" is at play, but which example best conveys what you are trying to say to your readers? Well I just got back from New Orleans and I was so struck to see these huge housing developments it's just so...
Almost 60 pages of your book are dedicated to notes and citations. Can you talk about the research involved in this project? The book is combination of my own reporting in Iraq, Sri Lanka after the tsunami, New Orleans after the levees broke, Argentina after the economic collapse in 2001...