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 Catas…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-14-199556-4
- EAN: 9780141995564
- Produktnummer: 34500345
- Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 416 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
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Niall Ferguson
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