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The inside story, told with “insight, perspective, and stellar reporting,” of how an unassuming civil servant created trillions of dollars from thin air, combatted a public health crisis, and saved the American economy from a second Great Depression (Alan S. Blinder, former Vice Chair of the...

Drawing on databases of cases filed, news reports, and other sources, Susan M. Sterett argues that governing during the pandemic must include the human institutions intertwined with the effects of the virus. Those institutions reveal problems well beyond the reach of technical expertise. Failures in private insurance as a way of governing risk, conflicts about the primacy of religion, government authority, and health, are problems that predated the pandemic and will persist in future disasters.

When houses are flattened, towns submerged, and people stranded without electricity or even food, we attribute the suffering to "natural disasters" or "acts of God." But what if they're neither? What if we, as a society, are bringing these catastrophes on ourselves? That's the provocative theory of Catastrophe in the Making, the first audiobook to recognize Hurricane Katrina not as a "perfect storm," but a tragedy of our own making - and one that could become commonplace.

Coronavirus, la stretta sul lavoro: Bonomi: "Andiamo verso un'economia di guerra. Ma no ad una nuova Iri" di Roberto Mania; Bergamo, il freno delle aziende e gli errori in corsia di Paolo Berizzi; Il destino comune che ci manca di Stefano Folli; Finisce il ricatto del lavoro di Gad Lerner; Patuanelli: "Non abbiamo ceduto agli industriali, l'obiettivo comune è salvare vite" di Annalisa Cuzzocrea; Il lavoro degli altri di Ezio Mauro.