The Fifth Risk

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Michael Lewis
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W. W. Norton & Company 2018-10-2 Hardcover 9781324002642

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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.

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##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。。。

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##作者例证了现代政府诸多关键职能都要求相当的科学专业素养,不仅是为了破除新自由主义鼓吹的小政府主义迷思,唤起民众对政府工作的关注,更是为了向世人发出警告,当利益团体打着意识形态的旗号绑架政府,罔顾科学而谋取私利时,将对民主社会带来怎样严重而长久的危害。本书成书于川普赢得竞选之际,作者只能对政府交接时新政权的混乱和短视忧心忡忡,当然还不知道即将到来的疫情黑天鹅,这就不禁让人好奇他现今看到美帝新冠死亡人数接近1M会作何感想。结果一搜发现人家果然又写了一本《The Premonition: A Pandemic Story》专门聊这事。

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##有点意思

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##US government is a giant organization that is misunderstood by most of Americans.

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##作者例证了现代政府诸多关键职能都要求相当的科学专业素养,不仅是为了破除新自由主义鼓吹的小政府主义迷思,唤起民众对政府工作的关注,更是为了向世人发出警告,当利益团体打着意识形态的旗号绑架政府,罔顾科学而谋取私利时,将对民主社会带来怎样严重而长久的危害。本书成书于川普赢得竞选之际,作者只能对政府交接时新政权的混乱和短视忧心忡忡,当然还不知道即将到来的疫情黑天鹅,这就不禁让人好奇他现今看到美帝新冠死亡人数接近1M会作何感想。结果一搜发现人家果然又写了一本《The Premonition: A Pandemic Story》专门聊这事。

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##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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