Злой рок. Политика катастроф

V svoey novoy knige znamenityy istorik Nial Fergyuson daet obzor samykh raznykh katastrof, sluchivshikhsya v istorii chelovechestva: geologicheskikh, geopoliticheskikh, biologicheskikh, tekhnologicheskikh. On rassmatrivaet prichiny i posledstviya konkretnykh bedstviy, v tom chisle pandemii COVID-19, a takzhe v tselom to, kakim obrazom lyudi i obshchestva reagiruyut na katastrofy i pytayutsya ikh predskazat.Opirayas na neskolko nauchnykh distsiplin, sredi kotorykh ekonomika, kliodinamika i nauka o setyakh, Fergyuson pishet ne tolko istoriyu, no i obshchuyu teoriyu katastrof, i pokazyvaet, pochemu nashi vse bolee byurokratizirovannye i slozhnye sistemy upravleniya vse khuzhe spravlyayutsya s nimi.