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The Politics of Catastrophe
Taschenbuch von Niall Ferguson
Sprache: Englisch

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'Magisterial ... Immensely readable' Douglas Alexander, Financial Times

'Insightful, productively provocative and downright brilliant' New York Times


A compelling history of catastrophes and their consequences, from 'the most brilliant British historian of his generation' (The Times)


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.

'Stimulating, thought-provoking ... Readers will find much to relish' Martin Bentham, Evening Standard

'Magisterial ... Immensely readable' Douglas Alexander, Financial Times

'Insightful, productively provocative and downright brilliant' New York Times


A compelling history of catastrophes and their consequences, from 'the most brilliant British historian of his generation' (The Times)


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.

'Stimulating, thought-provoking ... Readers will find much to relish' Martin Bentham, Evening Standard

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.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Genre: Politikwissenschaften
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 489
Inhalt: 512 S.
ISBN-13: 9780141995557
ISBN-10: 0141995556
Sprache: Englisch
Herstellernummer: 485609
Ausstattung / Beilage: B-format paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Ferguson, Niall
Besonderheit: Unsere Aufsteiger
Hersteller: Penguin Books Ltd (UK)
Penguin
Maße: 194 x 127 x 26 mm
Von/Mit: Niall Ferguson
Erscheinungsdatum: 07.07.2022
Gewicht: 0,35 kg
preigu-id: 120755033
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.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Genre: Politikwissenschaften
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 489
Inhalt: 512 S.
ISBN-13: 9780141995557
ISBN-10: 0141995556
Sprache: Englisch
Herstellernummer: 485609
Ausstattung / Beilage: B-format paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Ferguson, Niall
Besonderheit: Unsere Aufsteiger
Hersteller: Penguin Books Ltd (UK)
Penguin
Maße: 194 x 127 x 26 mm
Von/Mit: Niall Ferguson
Erscheinungsdatum: 07.07.2022
Gewicht: 0,35 kg
preigu-id: 120755033
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