Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe - Niall Ferguson Audiobook
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Coronavirus
Disasters
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Pandemics
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“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 20 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 handing 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.
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This post has 13 comments with rating of 3.8/5
May 16th, 2021
Thanks!
May 16th, 2021
In my view, Naomi Klein’s “Disaster Capitalism” is much better.
May 16th, 2021
Niall is always a pleasure, been looking forward to this one for a while!
May 16th, 2021
@mcmlxiii Naoimi Klein is insufferable and out of touch
May 16th, 2021
Noami Klein is great, but is always good to read/listen to what is being written, many thnks!
If you want to see a book that might be in the same vibe as Noami Klein’s and more actual than those is this new book by Richard Wolff “The Sickness is the System: When Capitalism Fails to Save Us from Pandemics or Itself” (although from him we have only “Democracy at Work” in audiobook)
May 16th, 2021
Wow, excellent. Thank you very much Sir.
May 17th, 2021
Virtue signalling steamer
May 17th, 2021
Did anyone else have a it missing/ skipping the very beginning of book?
May 17th, 2021
From the man who locked down the world and failed at every prediction he has ever made, more Doom….
May 18th, 2021
leadingnorth,
That’s a different Mr. Ferguson. This is a decent one.
qaz,
I didn’t notice a problem. The total book time matches audible.
May 25th, 2021
As someone with a history degree I’ve gotten tired of Ferguson’s ‘grand pronouncements’ & sweeping generalizations. He lost his reputation among historians as a balanced historical analyst years ago when he started injecting political opinions into his histories & pandering for big-bucks to speak before interest groups.
June 15th, 2021
Many thanks!
July 31st, 2024
Thank you.
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