Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe

In this book, author Niall Ferguson argues that despite having science on our side, developed countries’ responses to the 2020 pandemic were poorly bungled. While populist leaders performed poorly, more profound pathologies were at play, visible in our responses to earlier disasters. Ferguson, who has studied modern America’s foibles, draws from economics, cliodynamics, and network science to offer a history and general theory of disasters, explaining why our increasingly bureaucratic and complex systems are getting worse at handling them.

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