Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe - Niall Ferguson - Books - Penguin Books Ltd - 9780141995557 - July 7, 2022
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Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe

Niall Ferguson

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Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe

Disasters are inherently hard to predict. But when catastrophe strikes, we ought to be better prepared than the Romans were when Vesuvius erupted or medieval Italians when the Black Death struck. We have science on our side, after all. Yet the responses of many developed countries to a new pathogen from China were badly bungled. Why? While populist rulers certainly performed poorly in the face of the pandemic, Niall Ferguson argues that more profound pathologies were at work - pathologies already visible in our responses to earlier disasters. Drawing from multiple disciplines, including economics and network science, Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe offers not just a history but a general theory of disaster. As Ferguson shows, governments must learn to become less bureaucratic if we are to avoid the impending doom of irreversible decline.


208 pages

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released July 7, 2022
ISBN13 9780141995557
Publishers Penguin Books Ltd
Pages 512
Dimensions 197 × 130 × 28 mm   ·   354 g
Language English  

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