Stress tests highlight a system’s weak spots. This second edition provides a stress testing of the United States by exploring in detail the background to the disasters of the War on Terror, Hurricane Katrina, the financial crisis, the Gulf oil spill and the COVID-19 epidemic. These major stresses—the country’s longest war, its biggest natural disaster, its biggest financial collapse since the Great Depression, its biggest oil spill and its worst pandemic since the influenza pandemic of 1918—tell us much about structural flaws in the United States. This book explores each of these events in detail to locate the seed of the disasters, and highlights what we have learned and not learned from these stress tests.
Format: Paperback / softback
CONTRIBUTORS: John Rennie Short
EAN: 9783030660017
COUNTRY: Switzerland
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WEIGHT: 263 g
HEIGHT: 210 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Springer Nature Switzerland AG
DATE PUBLISHED: 2022-05-17
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GENRE: LAW / Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / General
WIDTH: 148 cm
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Book Themes:
United States of America, USA, Political science and theory, Political structure and processes, Public administration, Natural disasters
John Rennie Short is Professor of Public Policy at the University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA. He is the author of 50 books, and his work has been translated into Arabic, Chinese, Czech, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Portuguese, Spanish and Vietnamese. His essays have appeared in, amongst others, Business Insider, Conversation, Market Watch, Newsweek, Quartz, Salon, Slate, Time, Washington Post and World Economic Forum.
