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Tim Harford: why we fail to prepare for disasters

24 mins | Apr 22, 2020
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What makes us do nothing in the face of danger? Catastrophes such as coronavirus are all too predictable. And yet, here we are. Why? Undercover economist, Tim Harford, writes in the Financial Times about why societies all over the world often fail to prepare for crises they have been warned of quite a lot of time in advance.

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