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Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe

by Niall Ferguson

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

Publisher

Penguin Press

Publication date

May 04, 2021

Format

Print edition

Pages

496

ISBN

9780593297377