The Shock Doctrine

It s hardly a secret that US corporations are cashing in on the chaos in Iraq. Nor will it come as a surprise that a handful of oligarchs reaped the profits from privatising Russian industry in the mid1990s. This polished film lays the blame on the freemarket theories of Thatcher and Reagan s favourite economist, Milton Friedman. Based on the book of the same name by writer Naomi Klein, Michael Winterbottom and Mat Whitecross s film makes a compelling argument. It seems Friedman s ideas about the deregula