Doom
The Politics of Catastrophe
by Niall Ferguson
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“@AndrewCMcCarthy @nfergus very good book! | This is an excellent book, highly recommended?thoughtfully linking everything from earthquakes to pandemics to wars to dystopian scifi. You?ll hear me discussing it with @nfergus soon on the Lawfare Podcast. | This is not just a terrific read, it’s also a really important book. Doom offers profound historical insight into the history of disasters and how to respond more thoughtfully to the inevitable. | and why. Like Josh Rogin's "Chaos Under Heaven," "Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe" is a significant book, one which will be read for years if not decades, and you should read it now: (I also purchased the audible edition which is quite good.)”
Source →“@AndrewCMcCarthy @nfergus very good book! | This is an excellent book, highly recommended?thoughtfully linking everything from earthquakes to pandemics to wars to dystopian scifi. You?ll hear me discussing it with @nfergus soon on the Lawfare Podcast. | This is not just a terrific read, it’s also a really important book. Doom offers profound historical insight into the history of disasters and how to respond more thoughtfully to the inevitable. | and why. Like Josh Rogin's "Chaos Under Heaven," "Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe" is a significant book, one which will be read for years if not decades, and you should read it now: (I also purchased the audible edition which is quite good.)”
Source →Recommended by 4 notable people, including Hugh Hewitt and David Priess
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Recommended by 5 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books, Politics, and History.
All disasters are in some sense manmade. 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...
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“@AndrewCMcCarthy @nfergus very good book! | This is an excellent book, highly recommended?thoughtfully linking everything from earthquakes to pandemics to wars to dystopian scifi. You?ll hear me discussing it with @nfergus soon on the Lawfare Podcast. | This is not just a terrific read, it’s also a really important book. Doom offers profound historical insight into the history of disasters and how to respond more thoughtfully to the inevitable. | and why. Like Josh Rogin's "Chaos Under Heaven," "Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe" is a significant book, one which will be read for years if not decades, and you should read it now: (I also purchased the audible edition which is quite good.)”
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