179. Niall Ferguson — Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe
The Michael Shermer Show
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The Challenger Disaster
In most complex undertakings, there's a sort of bureaucratic vulnerability. We tend to want to pin the blame on the person at the top. The operational failure is usually due to some other form of rather prosaic mistake made by middle management. So it's not the people at the top, nor is it necessariy the people at the sharp end. And you can't blame the titanic on the people who were actually in command of the vessel at that moment.
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