Naomi Klein
Naomi Klein is a Canadian author, journalist, and activist whose books examine corporate globalization, climate change, and political economy.
Corporate globalization: The expansion of cross-border corporate production, investment, and influence within an increasingly integrated world economy. Klein’s early reporting examines how corporations gained power through this economic integration.
No Logo: Naomi Klein’s 1999 book examining corporate branding, labor practices, and resistance to multinational corporations. This book established her public profile through an account of brand power and globalization.
Avi Lewis: A Canadian documentary filmmaker and journalist who has collaborated with Naomi Klein on films and political projects. Their collaboration produced The Take and several later climate-focused projects.
Occupy Wall Street: A 2011 protest movement in New York City against economic inequality and corporate influence. Klein publicly supported the movement and connected its demands to critiques of corporate power.
Neoliberalism: A political-economic approach favoring market competition, privatization, deregulation, and reduced public provision. Klein critiques the market-centered policies she associates with corporate power.
The Shock Doctrine: Naomi Klein’s 2007 book arguing that crises have been used to advance market-oriented economic reforms. It presents her most influential account of disaster capitalism.
Milton Friedman: An American economist who advocated free markets and limited government, and helped shape modern monetarism. Klein presents Friedman’s ideas as a major intellectual source for policies she criticizes.
Leap Manifesto: A 2015 Canadian political document calling for climate action, Indigenous rights, and economic transformation. Klein helped launch this effort to connect climate policy with broader social change.
Disaster capitalism: The use of crises to impose rapid market-oriented reforms that would face resistance under ordinary conditions. Klein developed this framework to connect political shocks with economic restructuring.
This Changes Everything: Naomi Klein’s 2014 book arguing that climate action requires confronting the political economy of fossil fuels. This book brings her climate analysis into direct contact with her critique of neoliberalism.