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cubicgarden

cubicgarden@bookwyrm.social

Joined 2 years, 7 months ago

UK Non-fiction Audiobook listener/reader. Based in Manchester, UK. Social geek and fascinated with empowering the next generation of the public service internet

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2024 Reading Goal

33% complete! cubicgarden has read 8 of 24 books.

Naomi Klein: The Shock Doctrine : The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (EBook, 2010, Holt & Company, Henry) 4 stars

An introduction to "disaster capitalism" argues that the global free market has exploited crises, violence, …

Do you know what you mean, when you say free-markets?

4 stars

Deeply thoughtful book, which makes clear how Chicago school economics has completely screwed over so much of the world and for what? The origins of free-market economics is something everyone in the tech industry should read to truly understand the extent of some of those dreams.

Naomi Klein: The Shock Doctrine : The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (EBook, 2010, Holt & Company, Henry) 4 stars

An introduction to "disaster capitalism" argues that the global free market has exploited crises, violence, …

Deeply thoughtful book, which makes clear how Chicago school economics has completely screwed over so much of the world and for what? The origins of free-market economics is something everyone in the tech industry should read to truly understand the extent of some of those dreams.