![]() ![]() As Ferguson shows, governments must learn to become less bureaucratic if we are to avoid the impending doom of irreversible decline. 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.ĭrawing from multiple disciplines, including economics and network science, Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe offers not just a history but a general theory of disaster. ![]() Yet the responses of many developed countries to a new pathogen from China were badly bungled. 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. Many believe that they are Cassandra, alone in their ability to predict the future while. Yet sometimes it felt as though the book was too heavily focused on Covid-19. Doom by Niall Ferguson review how to make sense of catastrophe History books The. Niall Fergusons new book exposes humanities obsession with calamity. I enjoyed Niall’s review of the events of late 2019-2020 as even though these events where recent, key details could’ve easily been missed in the chaos of living through the pandemic. 'Insightful, productively provocative and downright brilliant' New York TimesĪ compelling history of catastrophes and their consequences, from 'the most brilliant British historian of his generation' ( The Times)ĭisasters are inherently hard to predict. Niall Ferguson on Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe The Munk School. Immensely readable' Douglas Alexander, Financial Times ![]()
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