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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.
作者简介
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.
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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...
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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.
评分每一个risk的基本阐述逻辑是：**精英在某个部门做出了杰出贡献，某个部门对于整个美国的社会经济发展不可或缺，而Trump团队却对此不够重视。。。
评分这本书选了美国联邦政府中三个部门作为样本，分别是商务部，农业部和能源部，给人最大的感触就是现在的政府机构，实际的运行以及其对应的职责，与他们的名字有相当大的不同，给我印象最深的就是关于商务部如何收集天气信息以及在特朗普上台以后，他们与AccuWeather前CEO之间所存在的各种利益冲突。相对于书中提到的前四个Risk，包括什么核武器或者电网故障之类的，书题的第五大风险，应该直指矛头所在特朗普政府上台以来政府对于各种重要部门的精简与缩编，强调奥巴马时期政府做得有多好，然后特朗普上来很多部门不是负责人不够格，就是干脆没有负责人，整体上貌似在说政府一团乱麻，同时说了基层中层人员有多不易。好吧，屁股决定脑袋，立场决定态度~大家开心就好
评分前四大风险是：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。
评分作为世界上最庞大也最强大的机构，美国政府的隐患如何产生自内部。就像科幻/文革里人类自毁装置被打开了，第一章可谓步步惊心，完全可以当成政治悬疑来看，只不过书里所讲的事情是真的。后几章节奏略有松弛，不然可以给五星
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