7/3/2023 0 Comments Niall ferguson doom review![]() He campaigned with a callous disregard for the health of those around him.” But if we tell ourselves that it was all his fault that 600,000 Americans died prematurely, we are not going to learn the right lessons at all. The book does not let the populists off lightly. … Some critics have taken you to task for letting leaders at the top, such as Donald Trump and Boris Johnson, off a bit too easily. ![]() We get a sense of Ferguson’s approach from an interview at Open, He 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.” (from the Publisher) ![]() We all have stories few can trace the historically significant causes.įerguson, with many books to his credit, may be able to help here. ![]() Any thoughtful person who has lived through the panic of ever-shifting bureaucratic responses to COVID-19 and the huge collateral damage thus created knows that. We have science on our side, after all.” (from the Publisher)īut we are not better prepared. 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. and wars, are not normally distributed there is no cycle of history to help us anticipate the next catastrophe. Pandemics, like earthquakes, wildfires, financial crises. His talk will be based on his new book, Doom (Penguin, 2021), which offers a disturbing but timely thesis: “Disasters are inherently hard to predict. ![]()
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