The Fifth Risk

Michael Lewis is the best-selling author of Liar’s Poker, Moneyball, The Blind Side, The Big Short, and The Undoing Project. He lives in Berkeley, California, with his wife and three children.

出版者:W. W. Norton & Company

作者:Michael Lewis

页数:256

出版时间:2018-10-2

价格:USD 26.95

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9781324002642

图书标签:美国美国政治政治当代美国PoliticsMichaelLewis英文原版非虚构

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What are the consequences if the people given control over our government have no idea how it works?

"The election happened," remembers Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, then deputy secretary of the Department of Energy. "And then there was radio silence." Across all departments, similar stories were playing out: Trump appointees were few and far between; those that did show up were shockingly uninformed about the functions of their new workplace. Some even threw away the briefing books that had been prepared for them.

Michael Lewis’s brilliant narrative takes us into the engine rooms of a government under attack by its own leaders. In Agriculture the funding of vital programs like food stamps and school lunches is being slashed. The Commerce Department may not have enough staff to conduct the 2020 Census properly. Over at Energy, where international nuclear risk is managed, it’s not clear there will be enough inspectors to track and locate black market uranium before terrorists do.

Willful ignorance plays a role in these looming disasters. If your ambition is to maximize short-term gains without regard to the long-term cost, you are better off not knowing those costs. If you want to preserve your personal immunity to the hard problems, it’s better never to really understand those problems. There is upside to ignorance, and downside to knowledge. Knowledge makes life messier. It makes it a bit more difficult for a person who wishes to shrink the world to a worldview.

If there are dangerous fools in this book, there are also heroes, unsung, of course. They are the linchpins of the system―those public servants whose knowledge, dedication, and proactivity keep the machinery running. Michael Lewis finds them, and he asks them what keeps them up at night.

读后感

作为美国行政体系的顶端，总统和白宫的运作细节在全世界范围内都不缺少关注者，但拥有200多万雇员的联邦政府究竟如何具体管理国家，真正了解的人或许比较少。非虚构类畅销书作家Michael Lewis 的新书《第五项风险》(The Fifth Risk)以特朗普时期的能源部、农业部和商务部为样本...

作为美国行政体系的顶端，总统和白宫的运作细节在全世界范围内都不缺少关注者，但拥有200多万雇员的联邦政府究竟如何具体管理国家，真正了解的人或许比较少。非虚构类畅销书作家Michael Lewis 的新书《第五项风险》(The Fifth Risk)以特朗普时期的能源部、农业部和商务部为样本...

作为美国行政体系的顶端，总统和白宫的运作细节在全世界范围内都不缺少关注者，但拥有200多万雇员的联邦政府究竟如何具体管理国家，真正了解的人或许比较少。非虚构类畅销书作家Michael Lewis 的新书《第五项风险》(The Fifth Risk)以特朗普时期的能源部、农业部和商务部为样本...

作为美国行政体系的顶端，总统和白宫的运作细节在全世界范围内都不缺少关注者，但拥有200多万雇员的联邦政府究竟如何具体管理国家，真正了解的人或许比较少。非虚构类畅销书作家Michael Lewis 的新书《第五项风险》(The Fifth Risk)以特朗普时期的能源部、农业部和商务部为样本...

作为美国行政体系的顶端，总统和白宫的运作细节在全世界范围内都不缺少关注者，但拥有200多万雇员的联邦政府究竟如何具体管理国家，真正了解的人或许比较少。非虚构类畅销书作家Michael Lewis 的新书《第五项风险》(The Fifth Risk)以特朗普时期的能源部、农业部和商务部为样本...

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前四大风险是：第一，对核武器被盗、丢失或意外引爆的担忧；第二，和朝鲜之间关于核武器和化学武器的冲突；第三，特朗普宣布退出伊朗核协议，加速了伊朗核武器研发进程；第四，美国电网被间谍活动等手段攻击，发生大大小小的故障。

有点敷衍。去年Michael Lewis在名利场上写过两篇文章Why the Scariest Nuclear Threat May Be Coming from Inside the White House & Inside Trump's Cruel Campaign Against the U.S.D.A.'s Scientists，这两篇关于能源部和农业部的文章覆盖了本书2/3的内容。

简明扼要的从democratic establishment的角度阐述了三个问题：管核武器靠科学，美国农村要遭殃因为淳朴的USDA都不喜欢Trump people，飓风路线很随机预测天气还得靠卫星但是大数据还是nb

有点混乱

And so you might have good reason to pray for a tornado, whether it comes in the shape of swirling winds, or a politician. You imagine the thing doing the damage that you would like to see done, and no more. It’s what you fail to imagine that kills you.