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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.
著者簡介
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...
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...
用戶評價
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
评分內容還是不錯的，漲瞭很多見識。作者的意圖比較模糊。
评分結構比較鬆散 花樣黑Trump 故事本身還都是頗值得一讀的
评分內容還是不錯的，漲瞭很多見識。作者的意圖比較模糊。
评分作為世界上最龐大也最強大的機構，美國政府的隱患如何産生自內部。就像科幻/文革裏人類自毀裝置被打開瞭，第一章可謂步步驚心，完全可以當成政治懸疑來看，隻不過書裏所講的事情是真的。後幾章節奏略有鬆弛，不然可以給五星
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