Y Tu Money Tambien

All the big books have promo videos now. But only a few can claim the pedigree that the video for Naomi Klein's new book Shock Doctrine has: Assisting Klein is none other than Alfonso Cuaron, director of Y Tu Mama Tambien and Children of Men.

Long a critic of globalization, Klein takes aim at "distaster capitalism" in her latest book, charging that today's finacial systems are too addicted to the turbulence caused by disasters to effectively prevent or mitigate them. You can hear Klein defend her idea in a recent BBC interview.--David E