7 Apr 2011 12:45 am
Avenger_of_Justice
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I haven't read "the Shock Doctrine" but I'm highly familiar with the examples she uses. The fact of the matter is, Chile's GDP per capita growth during the Pinochet era (1973 to ~1988) was actually the second worst in all of Latin America. Its capital city was so polluted that the World Health Organization declared an "emergency." It was almost the equivalent of a city enduring the fallout of ashes from a volcanic eruption, except the pollution was obviously caused by unregulated capitalism. Free Market economics made Chile into the envy of all Latin America. It raised incomes in desperately poor Hong Kong almost to that of the US.Hong Kong's model makes a better case for mixed economies. Yes, the cause of Freedom, something liberals almost always despise.Something tells me you couldn't define "freedom" if your life depended upon it.