
Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe
- Author Niall Ferguson
- Narrator Niall Ferguson
- Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
- Publish Date 6 May 2021
- Run Time 16 hours and 36 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Constitution: government and the state, General and world history, History, History: plagues, diseases etc, Political economy, Political science and theory, Politics and government, Social impact of disasters, Society and Social Sciences.
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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 and more "antifragile" if we are to avoid the impending doom of irreversible decline.
© Niall Ferguson 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021
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