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Doom
- The Politics of Catastrophe
- Narrateur(s): Niall Ferguson
- Durée: 16 h et 35 min
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"All disasters are in some sense man-made."
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. 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. We have science on our side, after all.
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Drawing from multiple disciplines, including economics, cliodynamics, and network science, Doom 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.
Doom is the lesson of history that this country - indeed the West as a whole - urgently needs to learn, if we want to handle the next crisis better, and to avoid the ultimate doom of irreversible decline.
This audiobook includes a downloadable PDF of images and tables from the book.
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“[Doom] hopscotches breezily across continents and centuries while also displaying an impressive command of the latest research in a large number of specialized fields, among them medical history, epidemiology, probability theory, cliodynamics and network theory.... Belongs on the shelf next to recent ambitious and eclectic books by authors like Jared Diamond, Nassim Nicholas Taleb and Steven Pinker.... Promises to make a contribution to improving our management of future disasters.... Insightful, productively provocative and downright brilliant.” (New York Times Book Review)
“Doom seeks to understand why humanity, time and again through the ages, has failed to prepare for catastrophes, whether natural or manmade.... Forecasting, network science, economics, epidemiology, together with the psychology of leadership are all considered in a dazzlingly broad examination of the ‘politics of catastrophe’.... Magisterial...[an] immensely readable book.” (The Financial Times)
“Doom covers an impressive sweep of history at a lively narrative clip and weaves a lot of disparate strands together into an engaging picture.” (The Guardian)
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- Zuppu
- 2022-09-06
poor volume, I could barely hear.
the post production is terrible. I could barely hear the narrator. otherwise a great book.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2021-08-27
Brilliant
An excellent survey of pandemic problems. A blending of sense with history and literature. Great!
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- 2021-05-17
so frustrating but worth the read
Not as well crafted and not nearly as well edited as Ferguson's other books, Doom seems a rush job. Full of excruciating detail and asides.
And yet, interspersed among the roundabouts, some great insights into disaster and especially the response to Covid.
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- 2022-09-12
Somewhat underwhelming
The book is a general outline of the history catastrophes alongside some writing on networking, and finished off by predictions of the future and implicit book recommendations.
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- DFrost
- 2021-06-16
Disjointed and Rushed
Compared to Ferguson's other books, this one seemed very scattered and poorly thought out. Almost as if it was rushed to shelves to take advantage of a pandemic.
Also, while I share Ferguson's concerns regarding tackling climate change to the exclusion of all other problems, he keeps going after that Thunberg girl, and it is always a bad look when, instead of explaining his concerns, he contents himself to dunk on a little girl, as if she alone is the climate change movement. It's pretty pathetic.
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