Niall Ferguson


Doom

Ferguson, Niall | DOOM


BoklivArtikelnr: 9780593297391

Boken analyserar hur moderna samhällen hanterar katastrofer och lärdomar från historiska händelser.

  • Doom utforskar hur samhällen hanterar katastrofer.

  • Analyserar historiska och nutida pandemier och kriser.

  • Utgiven som pocket, 2022.

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Ny
Pris:
REA-pris188 kr

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Bindning: Pocket

Bokförlag: Penguin USA
ISBN: 9780593297391

Omfång: 496
Språk: Engelska
Utgivningsdatum: 2022-07-05

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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.

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Vanliga frågor om Doom av Niall Ferguson

Boken 'Doom' utforskar svårigheterna med att förutsäga katastrofer som pandemier och jordbävningar, med historiska exempel som Vesuvius utbrott och digerdöden.

Teman i 'Doom' inkluderar katastrofberedskap, samhällsrespons på kriser och brister i moderna institutioner och ledarskap.

Detta exemplar är en ny pocketutgåva publicerad av Penguin USA den 5 juli 2022, omfattande 496 sidor och skriven på engelska.

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