With the use of shocks, Klein argues that government officials and leaders decided the economic state of different countries. The shock doctrine was created by University of Chicago scholar Milton Friedman, who was collogues with Hayek. This doctrine was implemented in countries like Chile, Argentina, Iraq, and the States. There are three imporant steps to the shock doctrine and changing a whole government and ideology of a country or area. A basic overview of the shock doctrine can be seen in the quote, “for three decades, Friedman and his powerful followers had been perfecting this very strategy: waiting for a major crisis, then selling off pieces of the state to private players while citizens were still reeling from the shock, then quickly making the “reform” permanent,” (Klein 2007:7). These three steps are essential to quickly changing an economic state without the people’s knowledge, since people are preoccupied. With the implementation of these steps, people do not have the freedom to choose their economic structure of government (Klein 2007). Looking closely at the first shock, something actually happen to create this
With the use of shocks, Klein argues that government officials and leaders decided the economic state of different countries. The shock doctrine was created by University of Chicago scholar Milton Friedman, who was collogues with Hayek. This doctrine was implemented in countries like Chile, Argentina, Iraq, and the States. There are three imporant steps to the shock doctrine and changing a whole government and ideology of a country or area. A basic overview of the shock doctrine can be seen in the quote, “for three decades, Friedman and his powerful followers had been perfecting this very strategy: waiting for a major crisis, then selling off pieces of the state to private players while citizens were still reeling from the shock, then quickly making the “reform” permanent,” (Klein 2007:7). These three steps are essential to quickly changing an economic state without the people’s knowledge, since people are preoccupied. With the implementation of these steps, people do not have the freedom to choose their economic structure of government (Klein 2007). Looking closely at the first shock, something actually happen to create this