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发表于2024-11-21
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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.
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.
语音书到手,骂川普的,也就这本值得一读。虽然有流水账之嫌,不过,作者呈现的黯淡现实真让理想主义者寒心。嫌内容少的读者有些吹毛求疵,川普去年初就职,作者在一年多时间完成采访撰写,写了三个主要部门的问题,已经很不易了。为叙述风格加一星,显然为了中期选举匆忙完成的。表面上反对川普,实际批判这种造就川普的政治环境和那些无视或无知于政府职能的选民们。即使共和党失去多数地位,风险长期存在,美国的政治气氛和意识形态才是问题症结所在,川普只是开始。
评分Taking a functional democracy for granted + not understanding the role of government - Lewis为establishment的辩护其实还挺聪明的。重要的点并不是去question大政府本身而是描述一个现状(人民对政府的dependence)以及傻逼能够在这样的现状下如何ruin lives的(unless they supplant that dependency with something else - smartly, which they didn’t). 看了眼豆瓣评论觉得很多人真是读书不带脑。又及,考虑到各种因素我还是去Belarus买块荒地做当代卢梭wannabe吧。 #退出当代生活
评分Program management.
评分优点:1 文笔依然流畅 2 故事依然精彩 3 现代国家实在复杂;缺点:1 倾向明显,把右派一切卡通化,包括有道理的批评,所以缺乏深度(比如没有探讨现代国家的意义) 2 像报道合集不像书籍、缺乏体系 3 有些地方自相矛盾,比如说了半天大数据的作用却没有说如何用大数据评估官僚效率
评分Taking a functional democracy for granted + not understanding the role of government - Lewis为establishment的辩护其实还挺聪明的。重要的点并不是去question大政府本身而是描述一个现状(人民对政府的dependence)以及傻逼能够在这样的现状下如何ruin lives的(unless they supplant that dependency with something else - smartly, which they didn’t). 看了眼豆瓣评论觉得很多人真是读书不带脑。又及,考虑到各种因素我还是去Belarus买块荒地做当代卢梭wannabe吧。 #退出当代生活
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...
评分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...
评分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...
评分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...
评分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...
The Fifth Risk pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024