![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As Ferguson shows, governments must learn to become less bureaucratic if we are to avoid the impending doom of irreversible decline. The politics of catastrophe promised in the subtitle is thinly. 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. Doom is broad-brushed, empirically formidable, discipline-defying, and not wholly convincing. Yet the responses of many developed countries to a new pathogen from China were badly bungled. Sarah Ferguson was not at Saturdays coronation of King Charles III, but that didnt stop her from celebrating in style. 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. Disasters are inherently hard to predict. ![]()
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