On Dec 2, 2008, at 9:22 PM, Shane Taylor wrote:
> This reviewer strains to sympathize, but doesn't make a strong sell
> for the book:
>
> <http://www.chrishayes.org/articles/new-road-serfdom/>
Where he says:
> While Klein calls this the “shock doctrine,” I prefer a phrase she
> quotes from former World Bank Chief Economist Joseph Stiglitz, who
> called those who imposed free-market “shock therapy” on Russia in
> the early ’90s “market Bolsheviks.”
Unfair to the Bolshies! When I interviewed Boris Kagarlitsky in the late 1980s - man it sure was difficult to call Moscow in those days, and the sound quality really sucked - he used the phrase "market Stalinism." I like that better.
Doug