7/8/2023 0 Comments Doom ferguson![]() ![]() ![]() Then, in the final three chapters, he addresses the challenges and lessons of the current global pandemic (as he saw them at the time of writing, in August 2020), and discusses our handling of the pandemic, its economic implications, and how it has changed the future of American–Chinese relations.ĭoom is a beautiful primer for the intellectually curious. His overarching theme is that “all disasters are at some level man-made political disasters,” and each of the first eight chapters examines a particular kind of influence on these disasters, such as human psychology, behavioural economics and what he sees as an overly optimistic view of the history of medicine. ![]() To address these questions, Ferguson takes readers on a whirlwind intellectual journey from antiquity to modernity. ![]() As Niall Ferguson acknowledges in his new book, Doom, “a general history of catastrophe” must address three main questions: Why do some societies outperform others? Why do some collapse while others thrive? And what role does politics play in precipitating catastrophe? ![]()
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