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Niall Ferguson

Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe

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Disasters are by their very nature hard to predict. Pandemics, like earthquakes, wildfires, financial crises and wars, are not normally distributed; there is no cycle of history to help us anticipate the next catastrophe. But when disaster 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 a number of devloped countries to a new pathogen from China were badly bungled. Why?The facile answer is to blame poor leadership. While populist rulers have certainly performed poorly in the face of the pandemic, mo… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-241-50176-4
  • EAN: 9780241501764
  • Produktnummer: 34661650
  • Verlag: Penguin Books
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
  • Seitenangabe: 416 S.
  • Ausstattung: Trade Paperback
  • Masse: H23.4 cm x B15.3 cm
  • Abbildungen: Trade paperback (UK)

Über den Autor


Niall Ferguson is one of Britain's most renowned historians. He is the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, a senior faculty fellow of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard, and a visiting professor at Tsinghua University, Beijing. His most recent book is The Square and the Tower.

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