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  • Sean Carroll's Mindscape Niall Ferguson on Histories, Networks, and Catastrophes (Season 1, Episode 145)
  • Podcast Episode | 85 min | Talk-Show

Sean Carroll's Mindscape

Niall Ferguson on Histories, Networks, and Catastrophes (Season 1, Episode 145)
Podcast Episode | 85 min | Talk-Show
The world has gone through a tough time with the COVID-19 pandemic. Every catastrophic event is unique, but there are certain commonalities to how such crises play out in our modern interconnected world. Historian Niall Ferguson wrote a ...See moreThe world has gone through a tough time with the COVID-19 pandemic. Every catastrophic event is unique, but there are certain commonalities to how such crises play out in our modern interconnected world. Historian Niall Ferguson wrote a book from a couple of years ago, The Square and the Tower, that considered how an interplay between networks and hierarchies has shaped the history of the world. This analysis is directly relevant to how we deal with large-scale catastrophes, which is the subject of his new book, Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe. We talk about global culture as a complex system, and what it means for our ability to respond to crisis. See less
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Sean Carroll
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Earth to Echo (2014)
Niall Ferguson
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The Ascent of Money (2008)
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