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.
##美国政治角力的本质,往往不是驴象之争,而是逐利和逐梦者之争。作者写到农业部的时候开始陷入了一种固定范式:高效部门被架空、优秀团队被罢黜、有益项目被取缔,Trump与Obama和Bush政权相比有诸多不妥。但是循规蹈矩其实未必稳妥,异于前任未必倒退,我反而觉得Trump团队最大的过错在于表象沟通时的傲慢和冷漠。一切问题都会透过沟通暴露,沟通不当,一切便都是问题。读完全书,最精华的论点在DOE一章最后,守序的邪恶与无知是第五类风险的本源,要比大众视野下的混乱善意可怕的多:牺牲长期利益,而试图通过program management填补短期的漏洞,这才是一个政治体制倒退的深层原因。
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评分##打書釘,又一斷斷續續三四個月的長征 Write the impact of Trump's on the U.S. government. At first glance it seems that nothing wrong.Each of his policies has far-reaching effects & at the same time weakens of the USA.The author's so-called the fifth risk refers to the mismanagement of government programs.Take the entire USA into very dangerous & uncharted territory
评分 评分##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。
评分 评分##可读性很强 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 评分##打書釘,又一斷斷續續三四個月的長征 Write the impact of Trump's on the U.S. government. At first glance it seems that nothing wrong.Each of his policies has far-reaching effects & at the same time weakens of the USA.The author's so-called the fifth risk refers to the mismanagement of government programs.Take the entire USA into very dangerous & uncharted territory
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