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| Introduction: Blank Is Beautiful: Three Decades of Erasing and Remaking the World | |
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| Two Doctor Shocks: Research and Development | |
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| The Torture Lab: Ewen Cameron, the CIA and the Maniacal Quest to Erase and Remake the Human Mind | |
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| The Other Doctor Shock: Milton Friedman and the Search for a Laissez-Faire Laboratory | |
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| The First Test: Birth Pangs | |
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| States of Shock: The Bloody Birth of the Counterrevolution | |
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| Cleaning the Slate: Terror Does Its Work | |
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| "Entirely Unrelated": How an Ideology Was Cleansed of Its Crimes | |
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| Surviving Democracy: Bombs Made of Laws | |
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| Saved by a War: Thatcherism and Its Useful Enemies | |
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| The New Doctor Shock: Economic Warfare Replaces Dictatorship | |
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| Crisis Works: The Packaging of Shock Therapy | |
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| Lost in Transition: While We Wept, While We Trembled, While We Danced | |
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| Slamming the Door on History: A Crisis in Poland, a Massacre in China | |
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| Democracy Born in Chains: South Africa's Constricted Freedom | |
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| Bonfire of a Young Democracy: Russia Chooses "The Pinochet Option" | |
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| The Capitalist Id: Russia and the New Era of the Boor Market | |
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| Let It Burn: The Looting of Asia and "The Fall of a Second Berlin Wall" | |
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| Shocking Times: The Rise of the Disaster Capitalism Complex | |
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| Shock Therapy in the U.S.A.: The Homeland Security Bubble | |
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| A Corporatist State: Removing the Revolving Door, Putting in an Archway | |
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| Iraq, Full Circle: Overshock | |
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| Erasing Iraq: In Search of a "Model" for the Middle East | |
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| Ideological Blowback: A Very Capitalist Disaster | |
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| Full Circle: From Blank Slate to Scorched Earth | |
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| The Movable Green Zone: Buffer Zones and Blast Walls | |
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| Blanking the Beach: "The Second Tsunami" | |
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| Disaster Apartheid: A World of Green Zones and Red Zones | |
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| Losing the Peace Incentive: Israel as Warning | |
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| Conclusion: Shock Wears Off: The Rise of People's Reconstruction | |
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| Notes | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Index | |