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
发表于2024-12-22
The Fifth Risk pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024
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.
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。
評分美國政治角力的本質,往往不是驢象之爭,而是逐利和逐夢者之爭。作者寫到農業部的時候開始陷入瞭一種固定範式:高效部門被架空、優秀團隊被罷黜、有益項目被取締,Trump與Obama和Bush政權相比有諸多不妥。但是循規蹈矩其實未必穩妥,異於前任未必倒退,我反而覺得Trump團隊最大的過錯在於錶象溝通時的傲慢和冷漠。一切問題都會透過溝通暴露,溝通不當,一切便都是問題。讀完全書,最精華的論點在DOE一章最後,守序的邪惡與無知是第五類風險的本源,要比大眾視野下的混亂善意可怕的多:犧牲長期利益,而試圖通過program management填補短期的漏洞,這纔是一個政治體製倒退的深層原因。
評分US government is a giant organization that is misunderstood by most of Americans.
評分優點:1 文筆依然流暢 2 故事依然精彩 3 現代國傢實在復雜;缺點:1 傾嚮明顯,把右派一切卡通化,包括有道理的批評,所以缺乏深度(比如沒有探討現代國傢的意義) 2 像報道閤集不像書籍、缺乏體係 3 有些地方自相矛盾,比如說瞭半天大數據的作用卻沒有說如何用大數據評估官僚效率
評分Taking a functional democracy for granted + not understanding the role of government - Lewis為establishment的辯護其實還挺聰明的。重要的點並不是去question大政府本身而是描述一個現狀(人民對政府的dependence)以及傻逼能夠在這樣的現狀下如何ruin lives的(unless they supplant that dependency with something else - smartly, which they didn’t). 看瞭眼豆瓣評論覺得很多人真是讀書不帶腦。又及,考慮到各種因素我還是去Belarus買塊荒地做當代盧梭wannabe吧。 #退齣當代生活
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...
評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...
評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...
評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...
評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 電子書 下載 2024