| Book Name: | The Fifth Risk by Michael Lewis PDF |
| Category: | Politics Books |
| Language: | English |
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New York Times Bestseller
What will happen if the people in charge of our government don’t know how it works?
Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, then the deputy secretary of the Department of Energy, remembers that “the election happened.” “Then there was silence on the radio.” In all of the departments, the same things were happening: Trump’s new hires were few and far between, and the ones who did show up needed to be more knowledgeable about how their new jobs worked. Some of them even got rid of the briefing books that were made for them.
The brilliant story by Michael Lewis takes us into the inner workings of a government that its leaders are attacking. In Agriculture, money is being cut from essential programs like food stamps and school lunches. The Commerce Department might need more people to run the 2020 Census correctly. Over at Energy, which is in charge of managing international nuclear risk, it’s not clear if there will be enough inspectors to find and track down uranium on the black market before terrorists do.
Willful ignorance is a part of these disasters that are about to happen. If your goal is to get the most out of short-term gains without caring about the long-term costs, you should not know what those costs are. If you want to keep yourself from getting sick from complex problems, it’s best to never really understand them. There are good things about not knowing and bad things about learning. Knowledge makes life messier. It makes it harder for someone to fit the whole world into their worldview.
Even though there are dangerous fools in this book, there are also heroes who don’t get the credit they deserve. They are an essential part of the system. They are public servants whose knowledge, hard work, and initiative keep everything going. Michael Lewis finds them and asks them what worries them.
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Author(s): Lewis, Michael
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Year: 2018
ISBN: 9781324002642
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