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"The amazing life story of Nobel Prize winning economist Milton Friedman can be complete and effectively told only when integrated with stories of the impact of his ideas here in the United States and throughout the world. No one person in the 20th century had such an impact on economic thinking worldwide, as has Milton Friedman. Yet his is a most unlikely story that he credits, in large measure, to "luck."
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Using 'shock therapy' as a metaphor, the film investigates Naomi Klein's central idea of 'disaster capitalism.' When countries are jolted by catastrophic events such as war or natural disasters, they are often subjected to totally unregulated 'free market' remedies that benefit corporations at public expense.
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PM video volume 15
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In a lecture and an interview, Naomi Klein discusses the principles and practice of unrestrained free enterprise, its effects on the world's populations, and what people can do to countervail it.
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Presents an introduction to microeconomics, covering the market system, market structures, market failures, and government responses to market failures. Explores the concepts of production capacity, price floor, price ceiling, perfect competition, monopoly and monopolistic competition, and oligopoly.