How long does it take to read The Shock Doctrine?
The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein takes about 12 hours 25 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 12 hours 25 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2007. 677 pages, about 186,175 words.
25 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 20 hours 41 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 12 hours 25 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 7 hours 45 minutes |
The page count is the median across 34 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The Shock Doctrine, published in 2007, is a work of non-fiction by the Canadian author and activist Naomi Klein. Klein argues that free-market policies tied to Milton Friedman and the Chicago school spread worldwide through a deliberate strategy she names disaster capitalism. In her account, political actors seize on wars, natural disasters and other crises, when citizens are too disoriented to resist, to force through deregulation and privatization that benefit corporations. She challenges the idea that populations welcomed these reforms, and she traces the pattern across many countries and decades.
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Subjects: Financial crises, Capitalism, Free enterprise, Corporate power, Disasters, Economic history
