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Zeynep Tufekci recommends this book because it illustrates how societies fail when elites ignore plausible and rational actions.

“a history of societies that failed because the elites did not take actions that were plausible, available, rational and even in their self-interest.”

Zeynep Tufekci recommends this work to understand how initial crisis dynamics set the trajectory for long-term historical consequences.

“tracing the initial month of World War One, setting in place dynamics that would define the first half of the 20th century, arguably also the 1918 pandemic.”