So... I had a fun day, if you have a very strange sense of fun.
I decided I was going to read Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klien, and then followed it up with The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere ElseBy Hernando de Soto. He's the head economist behind one of the more influential policy groups in South America and is involved with a lot of the finical reconstruction going on there, and has a lot of proof in his pudding from his work in his native country of Peru.
Let me tell you, a very eye opening 24 hours. Cramming in the last of my recreation reading before I start the term.
First chapter of The Mystery of Capital
http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/d/desoto-capital.html
lots of information on Shock Doctrine
http://www.naomiklein.org/shock-doctrine/the-book
Both books are easy reading, but Shock Doctrine is written in a very journalistic style, if you can read a newspaper you'll have no problem turning the pages on that one.
Let me tell you, a very eye opening 24 hours. Cramming in the last of my recreation reading before I start the term.
First chapter of The Mystery of Capital
http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/d/desoto-capital.html
lots of information on Shock Doctrine
http://www.naomiklein.org/shock-doctrine/the-book
Both books are easy reading, but Shock Doctrine is written in a very journalistic style, if you can read a newspaper you'll have no problem turning the pages on that one.