The title sounds like an oxymoron and the subtitle is even more intriguing: "Conversations on altruism and compassion, between scientists, economists and the Dalai Lama." What exactly could ...

Katrina, 9/11 and disaster capitalism Naomi Klein talks about how governments and corporations take advantage of floods, wars and other crises to implement "shock and awe" economics.

As recent economic shocks — from the Covid pandemic to wars — have demonstrated, simplified models of cause and effect are woefully deficient. Farmer’s vision will undoubtedly be significant ...

Canadian journalist Naomi Klein has won Britain's inaugural Warwick Prize for Writing for "The Shock Doctrine," her acclaimed investigation into neoliberal economics which she calls "disaster ...

Her first book How China Escaped Shock Therapy: The Market Reform Debate has been recommended by the Financial Times and Foreign Policy. For her work on the rise of economics in China’s recent history ...

Another example of a positive supply shock has to do with the technology industry—in fact, this type is called a technology shock. The rise of the internet in the 1990s is one example, as it ...