Naomi Klein Helping Me UnLearn What I Learned in Business School

Naomi Klein Helping Me UnLearn What I Learned in Business School: "I’m less than a third of the way through Naomi Klein’s brilliant book, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, but it’s already giving me a new perspective on my years of graduate work in business school.

Klein talks about the argument made by Nobel-prize-winning economist Milton Friedman, that free-unfettered capitalism is the key to bringing all economic indicators in line, leading to a humming economy. Part of the allure of all economic theories, of course, is their ability to express their theories in terms of mathematical formulas. We have a tendency in the West, to think that numbers bestow reality on assertions. But Klein points out that Friedman implied that his free market theories had the strength of natural law."