In her 2007 book “Shock Doctrine,” Canadian author Naomi Klein writes about how
wealthy nations and corporations exploit the aftermath of natural, political or
economic disasters to implement radical, right-wing proposals that generate
profit for a select elite. Klein cites events like the overhaul of the Chilean
economy in 1973 after the ouster of Salvador Allende and the privatization of
the New Orleans school district in the wake of Hurricane Katrina in 2005 as
examples of how the wealthy use