Exposes the story of how America's 'free market' policies have come to dominate the world - through the exploitation of disaster-shocked people and countries. This book is based on historical research and four years of reporting in disaster zones. It explodes the myth that the global free market triumphed democratically.

As Klein shows how the deliberate use of the shock doctrine produced world-changing events from Pinochet's coup in Chile in 1973 to the Tiananmen Square Massacre in 1989 and the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, she tells a story radically different from the one usually heard. Once again Naomi Klein has written a book that will reframe the debate.