by Niall Ferguson · Allen Lane · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780241501764
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«Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe» is Niall Ferguson's essay on catastrophes, published by Allen Lane in paperback (496 pages, English).
Ferguson analyses the response to COVID-19 as a failure not only of leadership, but of the administrative state and of short-sighted elites. He asks why the Cassandras were ignored and why few countries learned from SARS and MERS. History, economics and network science explain imperial arrogance, bureaucratic sclerosis and the digital schism.
Published on 6 May 2021, the book was nominated for the Lionel Gelber Prize in 2022.
For readers of history, politics and public health who want a critical read on pandemic management.
Sir Niall Campbell Ferguson is a British and American historian who is the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and a senior fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University. Previously, he was a professor at Harvard University, the London School of Economics, New York University, a visiting professor at the New College of the Humanities, and a senior research fellow at Jesus College, Oxford. He was a visiting lecturer at the London School of Economics for the 2023/2024 academic year and at Tsinghua University in China from 2019 to 2020.
