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Did you even read the book?
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Submitted by dopefish, Mar 7, 2008 09:48
Hard to imagine you could write this review if you read the book carefully. No doubt Cowen skimmed the chapters thinking he already knew what was going on. Klein often cites the people she's criticizing -- this makes it an emotional screed? She uses their facts, their quotes, their interviews, their essays to back up her claims. Cowen apparently glanced through Shock Doctrine and failed to notice the 59 pages of citations in the back, not to mention the footnotes, that very carefully document everything. This isn't to say she always gets everything right, so it'd be fine to dispute particular interpretations. But to dismiss it wholesale as the work of a hack is to do an injustice. It's simply intellectual dishonesty for Cowen to characterize Klein as a rage-filled amateur instead of charitably admitting, "I disagree with Ms. Klein, but she's presented a meticulously researched work that deserves to be taken seriously."
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| Title | By | Date |
⇒ Did you even read the book? [153 words] |
dopefish |
Mar 7, 2008 09:48 |
Childish [67 words] |
Kirk |
Feb 26, 2008 14:20 |
Hilarious [83 words] |
Uncle Milty |
Feb 12, 2008 15:40 |
it is clear outside the bubble [59 words] |
bill |
Feb 2, 2008 18:51 |
probably the most important book out there [76 words] |
Peggy |
Jan 29, 2008 20:51 |
very distorted review [192 words] |
Nick |
Jan 28, 2008 00:20 |
Interesting review. [213 words] |
Albar |
Jan 25, 2008 20:58 |
Critiques of Klein Completely Avoid Iraq [70 words] |
Christopher Hutton |
Dec 17, 2007 23:34 |
First use of the shock doctrine by CIA was in Guatemala in 1954 [348 words] |
Lawrence Turner |
Nov 25, 2007 16:31 |
As others have said, Mr. Cowen gives a review of a very distorted version of both Naomi Kline and "Shock Doctrine". [181 words] |
noel |
Nov 17, 2007 02:32 |
New Zealand ecomonic crises? [56 words] |
Burton Hodge |
Nov 15, 2007 01:49 |
Emotional bombast trying to offset another's? [197 words] |
datadave |
Nov 10, 2007 00:14 |
Mr. Cowen supports a straw-man fallacy [388 words] |
Josh |
Nov 5, 2007 11:46 |
Chile comment alone exposes you as much as you claim to expose Ms. Klein [205 words] |
Erik Bloom |
Oct 31, 2007 16:55 |
↔ Well.. [127 words] |
Cain Adamsson |
Nov 5, 2007 05:11 |
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism [22 words] |
jan willem |
Oct 27, 2007 12:44 |
non-engagement [264 words] |
Douglas Storm |
Oct 21, 2007 11:08 |
Reviewer has not understood the book [167 words] |
Dick Wolff |
Oct 12, 2007 19:12 |
↔ The reviewer has clearly (and perhaps deliberately) misunderstood the book [35 words] |
Beth |
Jan 5, 2008 17:00 |
This book is very timely [29 words] |
Sammy Radpurtha |
Oct 9, 2007 22:44 |
A little research could go a long way ... [95 words] |
Bumper |
Oct 8, 2007 17:59 |
tortured logic [31 words] |
mtraven |
Oct 6, 2007 13:23 |
Economists' Standards [318 words] |
Frank |
Oct 3, 2007 12:54 |
↔ The Value of Money [37 words] |
Glen |
Jan 17, 2008 07:53 |
"A Convenient Means of Attacking the Capitalist System" [168 words] |
Joey Gilgamesh |
Oct 3, 2007 09:25 |
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