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DOOM THE POLITICS OF CATASTROPHE - NIALL FERGUS...

'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

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