Published by Penguin Press, 2021
ISBN 10: 0593297377 ISBN 13: 9780593297377
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Published by ALLEN LANE, 2021
ISBN 10: 0241501768 ISBN 13: 9780241501764
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Published by Penguin Books, 2022
ISBN 10: 0593297393 ISBN 13: 9780593297391
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Published by Allen Lane, 2021
ISBN 10: 0241488443 ISBN 13: 9780241488447
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Published by Penguin, 2022
ISBN 10: 0141995556 ISBN 13: 9780141995557
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Published by Allen Lane, 2021
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Published by Allen Lane, 2021
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Published by Penguin Press, New York, 2021
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Published by Wydawnictwo Literackie, 2022
ISBN 10: 8308075290 ISBN 13: 9788308075296
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Published by Penguin Press, 1900
ISBN 10: 0593299728 ISBN 13: 9780593299722
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Published by Penguin Books Ltd, 2022
Seller: Librodifaccia, Alessandria, AL, Italy
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Cloth in Dj. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 8vo, hardcover in dj, pp.493. Disasters are by their very nature hard to predict. Pandemics, like earthquakes, wildfires, financial crises and wars, are not normally distributed; there is no cycle of history to help us anticipate the next catastrophe. But when disaster 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 a number of devloped countries to a new pathogen from China were badly bungled. Why? The facile answer is to blame poor leadership. While populist rulers have certainly performed poorly in the face of the pandemic, more profund problems have been exposed by COVID-19. Only when we understand the central challenge posed by disaster in history can we see that this was also a failure of an administrative state and of economic elites that had grown myopic over much longer than just a few years. Why were so many Cassandras for so long ignored? Why did only some countries learn the right lessons from SARS and MERS? Why do appeals to 'the science' often turn out to be mere magical thinking? Drawing from multiple disciplines, including history, economics and network science, Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe is a global post mortem for a plague year. Drawing on preoccupations that have shaped his books for some twenty years, Niall Ferguson describes the pathologies that have done us so much damage: from imperial hubris to bureaucratic sclerosis and online schism. COVID-19 was a test failed by countries who must learn some serious lessons from history if they are to avoid the doom of irreversible decline.
Published by Penguin Press, 2021
ISBN 10: 0593297377 ISBN 13: 9780593297377
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Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, first printing STATED. Book is brand new and unread. Personally hand signed by the great historian to a Publisher's bookplate affixed to the ffep. Dust jacket hand covered in archival grade Mylar for many worry free years of reading/collecting! Photos available upon request. "All disasters are in some sense man-made." Setting the annus horribilis of 2020 in historical perspective, Niall Ferguson explains why we are getting worse, not better, at handling disasters. Disasters are inherently hard to predict. Pandemics, like earthquakes, wildfires, financial crises. and wars, are not normally distributed; there is no cycle of history to help us anticipate the next catastrophe. But when disaster 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 in 2020 the responses of many developed countries, including the United States, to a new virus from China were badly bungled. Why? Why did only a few Asian countries learn the right lessons from SARS and MERS? While populist leaders certainly performed poorly in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, Niall Ferguson argues that more profound pathologies were at work--pathologies already visible in our responses to earlier disasters. In books going back nearly twenty years, including Colossus, The Great Degeneration, and The Square and the Tower, Ferguson has studied the foibles of modern America, from imperial hubris to bureaucratic sclerosis and online fragmentation. Drawing from multiple disciplines, including economics, cliodynamics, and network science, Doom offers not just a history but a general theory of disasters, showing why our ever more bureaucratic and complex systems are getting worse at handling them. Doom is the lesson of history that this country--indeed the West as a whole--urgently needs to learn, if we want to handle the next crisis better, and to avoid the ultimate doom of irreversible decline. Signed by Author(s).