Capitalist Paradise or Post-Communist Disaster: The Political Economy of the Baltic States

This interview with Michael Hudson describes what has happened to Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia since the fall of the Soviet Union. Not a pretty picture, just more of the Chicago Boys’ primitive accumulation process described by Naomi Klein in her book The Shock Doctrine.
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About Barbara MacLean

Barbara MacLean has worked as an academic and career counselor at California State University, East Bay (CSUEB), Merritt and West Valley Colleges and as a career counselor and manager of the Oakland One Stop Career Center, a public career and jobs center in partnership with EDD. She is a co-founder and editor of Planning Beyond Capitalism.

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