| ISBN |
0241488443 (hardback)
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| ISBN13桁 |
9780241488447 (hardback)
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| 無効なISBN等 |
9780141995564 (ePub ebook)
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| テキストの言語 |
英語
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| 分類：NDC10版 |
369.3
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| 個人著者標目 |
Ferguson, Niall.
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| 本タイトル |
Doom :
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| タイトル関連情報 |
the politics of catastrophe /
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| 著者名 |
Niall Ferguson.
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| 出版地・頒布地 |
[London], UK :
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| 出版者・頒布者名 |
Allen Lane,
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| 出版年・頒布年 |
2021.
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| 数量 |
472 pages :
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| 他の形態的事項 |
illustrations, maps ;
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| 大きさ |
24 cm.
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| 一般注記 |
Published in the US by Penguin Press, 2021.
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| 書誌注記 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| 内容注記 |
Introduction -- The meaning of death -- Cycles and tragedies -- Gray rhinos, black swans, and dragon kings -- Networld -- The science delusion -- The psychology of political incompetence -- From the boogie woogie flu to Ebola in town -- The fractal geometry of disaster -- The plagues -- The economic consequences of the plague -- The three-body problem -- Future shocks.
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| 要約、抄録、注釈等 |
A provocative, original and compelling history of catastrophes and their consequences. Disasters are by their very nature 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. Yet the responses of a number of developed countries to a new pathogen from China were badly bungled. Why? The facile answer is to blame poor leadership. While populist rulers have certainly performed poorly in the face of the pandemic, more profound problems have been exposed by COVID-19. Only when we understand the central challenge posed by disaster in history can we see that this was also a failure of an administrative state and of economic elites that had grown myopic over much longer than just a few years. Why were so many Cassandras for so long ignored? Why did only some countries learn the right lessons from SARS and MERS? Why do appeals to 'the science' often turn out to be mere magical thinking? Drawing from multiple disciplines, including history, economics and network science, Doom- The Politics of Catastrophe is a global post mortem for a plague year. Drawing on preoccupations that have shaped his books for some twenty years, Niall Ferguson describes the pathologies that have done us so much damage- from imperial hubris to bureaucratic sclerosis and online schism. COVID-19 was a test failed by countries who must learn some serious lessons from history if they are to avoid the doom of irreversible decline.
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| 一般件名 |
COVID-19 (Disease) -- Political aspects.
Disasters. |
| 資料情報1 |
『Doom :
the politics of catastrophe /』 Niall Ferguson. Allen Lane, 2021.
（所蔵館：中央
請求記号：F/369.3/F35/D
資料コード：7115437167）
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| URL |
https://catalog.library.metro.tokyo.lg.jp/winj/opac/switch-detail.do?lang=ja&bibid=1352054201 |
