"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 ...
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Doom
The Politics of Catastrophe
Ferguson, Niall
Kartoniert, 496 S.
22 B&W PHOTOS, CHARTS, GRAPHS
Sprache: Englisch
9.2500 in
Penguin Random House (2021)
Gewicht: 564 g
ISBN-13: 978-0-593-29972-2
Titelnr.: 91819747