Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe

Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe

Niall Ferguson

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Editora: Penguin
Categorias:
Livros > Ciências Sociais e Humanas > História
Ano: 2019
ISBN: 9780593299722
Número de páginas: 496

Sinopse

A compelling history of catastrophes and their consequences, from 'the most brilliant British historian of his generation' (The Times)

Disasters are inherently hard to predict. 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. We have science on our side, after all. Yet the responses of many developed countries to a new pathogen from China were badly bungled. Why?

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.

Drawing from multiple disciplines, including economics and network science, Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe offers not just a history but a general theory of disaster. As Ferguson shows, governments must learn to become less bureaucratic if we are to avoid the impending doom of irreversible decline.

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Autor

Niall Ferguson

Niall Ferguson é um dos historiadores mais reputados da Grã-Bretanha. É professor de História, titular da Cátedra Laurence A. Tisch, na Universidade de Harvard, investigador principal da Hoover Institution, Universidade de Stanford, e professor convidado da Universidade de Tsinghua, em Pequim. Publicou os livros Paper and Iron, The House of Rothschild, Empire, The War of the World, The Ascent of Money, High Financier, Civilization e The Great Degeneration, entre outros.
Também escreveu e apresentou seis séries televisivas, de muito êxito, no Channel Four: Empire, American Colossus, The War of the World, The Ascent of Money, Civilization e China: Triumph and Turmoil. Em 2009, The Ascent of Money ganhou um International Emmy for Best Documentary. Kissinger, um filme de longa-metragem baseado nas suas entrevistas com Henry Kissinger, ganhou o prémio de melhor documentário no New York Film Festival. Entre os seus muitos prémios e distinções contam-se o Benjamin Franklin Prize for Public Service (2010), o Hayek Prize of Lifetime Achievement (2012) e o Ludwig Erhard Prize for Economic Journalism (2013).