I have decided to call my comments on books as 'book pointers' rather than book reviews, since sometimes I might not have read the book I am talking about. However, I feel like discussing the work simply because I like the author or the theme etc.
Which is the case for this book: Naomi Klein's "The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism" (Metropolitan Books, 446 pages, $28). Tyler Cowen, in his review of the book says that Naomi Klein has yet again tried to make it a best-seller banking on the shock-quotient of the book. Which is why I like to read the author - what fun is politics, commerce and policy if its told as it is - drab statistics and ambiguity of businesses. One must find an aberration in the bigger picture to simplify the broad agenda and to attribute motive to the characters. Naomi does just that, as I found in her previous book, No Logo.

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