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.
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.
發表於2024-06-18
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作為美國行政體係的頂端,總統和白宮的運作細節在全世界範圍內都不缺少關注者,但擁有200多萬雇員的聯邦政府究竟如何具體管理國傢,真正瞭解的人或許比較少。非虛構類暢銷書作傢Michael Lewis 的新書《第五項風險》(The Fifth Risk)以特朗普時期的能源部、農業部和商務部為樣本...
評分作為美國行政體係的頂端,總統和白宮的運作細節在全世界範圍內都不缺少關注者,但擁有200多萬雇員的聯邦政府究竟如何具體管理國傢,真正瞭解的人或許比較少。非虛構類暢銷書作傢Michael Lewis 的新書《第五項風險》(The Fifth Risk)以特朗普時期的能源部、農業部和商務部為樣本...
評分作為美國行政體係的頂端,總統和白宮的運作細節在全世界範圍內都不缺少關注者,但擁有200多萬雇員的聯邦政府究竟如何具體管理國傢,真正瞭解的人或許比較少。非虛構類暢銷書作傢Michael Lewis 的新書《第五項風險》(The Fifth Risk)以特朗普時期的能源部、農業部和商務部為樣本...
評分作為美國行政體係的頂端,總統和白宮的運作細節在全世界範圍內都不缺少關注者,但擁有200多萬雇員的聯邦政府究竟如何具體管理國傢,真正瞭解的人或許比較少。非虛構類暢銷書作傢Michael Lewis 的新書《第五項風險》(The Fifth Risk)以特朗普時期的能源部、農業部和商務部為樣本...
評分作為美國行政體係的頂端,總統和白宮的運作細節在全世界範圍內都不缺少關注者,但擁有200多萬雇員的聯邦政府究竟如何具體管理國傢,真正瞭解的人或許比較少。非虛構類暢銷書作傢Michael Lewis 的新書《第五項風險》(The Fifth Risk)以特朗普時期的能源部、農業部和商務部為樣本...
圖書標籤: 美國 美國政治 政治 當代美國 Politics MichaelLewis 英文原版 非虛構
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評分這本書選瞭美國聯邦政府中三個部門作為樣本,分彆是商務部,農業部和能源部,給人最大的感觸就是現在的政府機構,實際的運行以及其對應的職責,與他們的名字有相當大的不同,給我印象最深的就是關於商務部如何收集天氣信息以及在特朗普上颱以後,他們與AccuWeather前CEO之間所存在的各種利益衝突。相對於書中提到的前四個Risk,包括什麼核武器或者電網故障之類的,書題的第五大風險,應該直指矛頭所在特朗普政府上颱以來政府對於各種重要部門的精簡與縮編,強調奧巴馬時期政府做得有多好,然後特朗普上來很多部門不是負責人不夠格,就是乾脆沒有負責人,整體上貌似在說政府一團亂麻,同時說瞭基層中層人員有多不易。好吧,屁股決定腦袋,立場決定態度~大傢開心就好
評分內容還是不錯的,漲瞭很多見識。作者的意圖比較模糊。
評分有點敷衍。去年Michael Lewis在名利場上寫過兩篇文章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,這兩篇關於能源部和農業部的文章覆蓋瞭本書2/3的內容。
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The Fifth Risk 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載