Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
20.07.2026
Verlag
John S. PritchettSeitenzahl
172
Maße (L/B/H)
22,9/15,2/0,9 cm
Gewicht
240 g
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9798349468674
Catastrophes seem to happen without warning. A market crashes. An institution fractures. An ecosystem collapses. A bridge fails. An earthquake strikes. Everything appears stable-until suddenly it is not.
But what if the failure was never truly sudden?
In The Hidden Rules of Catastrophe, John Pritchett explores the invisible forces that shape collapse long before it becomes visible. Across geological, economic, infrastructural, institutional, and ecological systems, stress accumulates quietly. Efficiency removes protective margins. Temporary solutions conceal deeper weaknesses. Warning signs appear where no one wants to look, while models and experts remain constrained by the limited scales they are designed to observe.
By the time a system reaches its breaking point, the final trigger is rarely the real cause. It is simply the moment when years-or centuries-of accumulated pressure can no longer remain hidden.
Rather than offering predictions, assigning blame, or presenting a disaster-survival manual, this book provides a powerful framework for understanding why complex systems fail the way they do. It examines the illusion of stability, the hidden cost of efficiency, the mathematics of thresholds, the limits of expertise, and the misleading certainty of hindsight.
Clear, thoughtful, and wide-ranging, The Hidden Rules of Catastrophe invites readers to look beyond dramatic events and examine the structures beneath them.
Because catastrophe does not begin when a system breaks.
It begins when the forces shaping failure become too slow, too distributed, or too deeply hidden for us to see.
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