The Shock Doctrine (in paperback!)

by Naomi Klein

We're really happy to see the hot-off-the-presses paperback edition of Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine hit the shelves here at Red Emma's.  Really one of our favorite books of the past year - a sweeping, ultra-accessible overview of neoliberalism's project of profitably managed global catastrophe - one of the few things we could fault the book for was its $28 hardcover price.  Strangely enough, many people who are deeply concerned about the negative effects of neoliberal economic policies tend to be on the side of the class equation that makes that a little steep!  The paperback, on the other hand, is a much more reasonable $16.

And don't get us started on the price of books about gentrification - the overwhelming majority of which are priced far above what anybody but a real estate developer could afford.   Case in point - Marxist urban geographer Neil Smith's The New Urban Frontier: Gentrification and the Revanchist City, an absolutely essential classic study of the cultural politics of gentrification in New York City, costs only $60.  (Let us know if you want to order this - it's far too costly for us to stock at Red Emma's on a regular basis!)