# The Record of Liberalization

**URL:** <https://www.libertarianism.org/videos/record-liberalization>

**By** Johan Norberg

**Published:** November 18, 2008

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Johan Norberg critiques Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine.

Naomi Klein's recent book, _The Shock Doctrine_, points to the cases in which authoritarian regimes liberalized their economies. Johan Norberg, in his recent analysis, "[The Klein Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Polemics,](https://www.libertarianism.org/essays/klein-doctrine-rise-disaster-polemics)" shows that most countries have liberalized over the last three decades and capitalism is given rise to many of the ends that Klein herself would appreciate.