Antony Loewenstein talked about his book, Disaster Capitalism, in which he takes a critical look at companies like Halliburton, G4S, and Serco that make money off of natural and man-made disasters ...

Numerous observers have likened it to the " disaster capitalism" examined in Naomi Klein's seminal 2007 book, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism—politicians and plutocrats ...

After finishing her new book, "The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism," she partnered with Mexican director Alfonso Cuarón ("Children of Men") to make a short film. (See it on today ...

In her 2007 book, The Shock Doctrine, Naomi Klein coined the term disaster capitalism, which refers to the tendency of free markets and governments to respond opportunistically to catastrophic events.

I’ve been digging into disaster capitalism for a couple of decades now. For those of you who are new to the term, disaster capitalism is about how the already rich and powerful systematically ...

Disaster capitalism has a long history. One of the last remaining “relief cottages” built by Funston’s army at the cost of $100 and rented for $2 was just recently sold for $600,000.

“It’s disaster capitalism at its finest.” As a seventh generation Native Hawaiian farmer, educator and president of the water nonprofit Hui O Na Wai Eha, Pellegrino spent more than a decade ...

GM: Absolutely! You see, Eric…. Katrina is a snapshot of the type of philosophy, if you can call it that, of what I call disaster capitalism. That type of politics is what happened to Detroit ...

In the aftermath of the 2004 earthquake and tsunami that swept 100-foot waves across South Asia and took 230,000 lives, Klein noticed something peculiar amid the supposed reconstruction efforts.

If anything, the stories of corruption and incompetence serve to mask this deeper scandal: the rise of a predatory form of disaster capitalism that uses the desperation and fear created by ...

This makes capitalism a curiously bracing mechanism ... such as water management and disaster preparation; one firm in this field—Minneapolis-based Pentair, which makes pumps and filtration ...