The Shock Doctrine retells the story of the most dominant ideology of our time, Milton Friedman's free
market economic revolution.
Not exact matches
China and India, the two biggest emerging
markets, are experiencing
economic acceleration 10 times that of Europe's industrial
revolution — on 100 times the scale.
Sojourns in East Asia, Eastern Europe, and the global South convinced him that free
markets are the only viable mechanism of
economic development, as he explained in The Capitalist
Revolution.
This age provides us with the opportunity to initiate a 21s century renaissance of lost arts and economies that in times prior to the industrial
revolution were highly respected and skilled
economic and cultural practices seen and appreciated in
market places throughout all of Europe.
Technology, entrepreneurship, and emerging regional
markets, he wrote, would combine to create an
economic, social, and environmental
revolution in sub-Saharan Africa.
CSP has been active in the
market for more than 30 years, so we have witnessed a number of
economic cycles, wars (and their impact on US and NATO defence spending), and a
revolution in information technology (and attendant cybersecurity challenges) that has affected how government agencies operate.
The smartphone
revolution was about putting a powerful computer and an internet connection in everyone's pocket; it was not about creating a new class of
economic gatekeepers with the unchecked power to control and destroy
markets with zero oversight and little true competition.