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ALL THE DEVILS ARE HERE: UNMASKING THE MEN WHO BANKRUPTED THE WORLD

By Bethany Mc Lean & Joe Nocera. Penguin 2010

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DOOM : Politics of Catastrophe

By Ferguson, Niall.. Great Britain Penguin Random House 2021 , 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 devloped 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 profund 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. 9780241501764

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LIFE IN THE TIME OF POLYCRISIS

By Madhusoodanan, G.. Delhi Aakar Books 2026 , Life in the Time of Polycrisis is a unique holistic narrative of the 'big picture' of Anthropocene modernity - past, present and future - from a historical and scientific perspective. The book comprehensively unravels the fault lines in the Western socio- economic, environmental, energy, and climate policies that have landed the world in a 'polycrisis, the global climate crisis being its worst manifestation. Synthesis of 21st century empirical evidence from colonial history, environmental history, future studies, energy and environmental studies, climate science, biophysical economics and industrial ecology form the basis of this highly accessible narration. The scope of the book is global and is aimed at all those interested in a safe, sustainable and equitable planet-our only home. 9788169472852

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