Doom

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"Niall Ferguson demonstrates once again that applied history is the most powerful methodology for making policy in the practical world. This book must be tapped by all leaders who aspire to avoid catastrophe."
-ASH CARTER,
DIRECTOR OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY'S BELFER CENTER AND TWENTY-FIFTH U.S. SECRETARY OF DEFENSE
"Niall Ferguson puts the COVID pandemic into the broadest of historical perspectives, and reminds us that this was not the first time humans have had to deal with catastrophic events. Drawing on a deep knowledge of global history, he catalogs the threats that mankind has faced and the resourceful ways in which human societies have dealt with them."
-FRANCIS FUKUYAMA,
OLIVIER NOMELLINI SENIOR FELLOW AT STANFORD UNIVERSITY'S FREEMAN SPOGLI INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDIES (FSI) AND MOSBACHER DIRECTOR OF FSl'S CENTER ON DEMOCRACY,
DEVELOPMENT, AND THE RULE OF LAW
"In Doom, Niall Ferguson levels his remarkable critical eye on the vast... Tovább

Fülszöveg

ADVANCE PRAISE FOR DOOM
"Niall Ferguson demonstrates once again that applied history is the most powerful methodology for making policy in the practical world. This book must be tapped by all leaders who aspire to avoid catastrophe."
-ASH CARTER,
DIRECTOR OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY'S BELFER CENTER AND TWENTY-FIFTH U.S. SECRETARY OF DEFENSE
"Niall Ferguson puts the COVID pandemic into the broadest of historical perspectives, and reminds us that this was not the first time humans have had to deal with catastrophic events. Drawing on a deep knowledge of global history, he catalogs the threats that mankind has faced and the resourceful ways in which human societies have dealt with them."
-FRANCIS FUKUYAMA,
OLIVIER NOMELLINI SENIOR FELLOW AT STANFORD UNIVERSITY'S FREEMAN SPOGLI INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDIES (FSI) AND MOSBACHER DIRECTOR OF FSl'S CENTER ON DEMOCRACY,
DEVELOPMENT, AND THE RULE OF LAW
"In Doom, Niall Ferguson levels his remarkable critical eye on the vast landscape of human catastrophe, mining deep insights from the past that we can use to address the next pandemic or calamity and create a better fiiture."
-MARC BENIOFF,
CHAIR AND CEO, SALESFORCE
"Rational, practical, and beautifully written, Niall Fergusons Doom will not exactly ^ay your mind to rest about the catastrophes that await humanity, but it will help you anticipate the consequences. Moving beyond the pandemic, this is a book that will help you think logically about the future."
-ANNE APPLEBAUM,
SENIOR F'ELLOW, SNF AGORA INSTITUTE, JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, AND PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF GULAG


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"ALL DISASTERS ARE AT SOME LEVEL MAN-MADE."
Setting the annus horribilis of2020 in historical
perspective, NiaU Ferguson explains why we are getting worse, not better, at handling disasters
Disasters are inherently hard to foresee. 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 when Vesuvius erupted, or medieval Britons 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 popuUst leaders certainly performed poorly in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, NiaU 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, network science, and cHodynamics, Doom oifers not just a history but a general theory of disasters, showing why our ever more bureaucratic and complex systems are getting worse at handUng them.
Doom is the lesson from history that this country—indeed the West as a whole—urgendy needs to learn if we want to handle the next crisis better, and to avoid the impending doom of irreversible decline. Vissza