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The Fifth Risk
by Michael Lewis P

• Hardcover: 256 pages
• Publisher: Lewis, Michael; 1 edition (October 2, 2018)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 9781324002642
• ISBN-13: 978-1324002642
• ASIN: 1324002646
• Product Dimensions: 6.5 x 0.9 x 9.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces

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What are the particular consequences when the men and women given control over our authorities have no idea precisely how it works?

"The election happened, inch remembers Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, then deputy secretary of the particular Department of Energy. "And then there was radio stop. " Across all divisions, similar stories were enjoying out: Trump appointees were few and far in between; those that did demonstrate up were shockingly uninformed about the functions associated with their new workplace. Quite a few even threw away the particular briefing books that had been ready for them.

Michael Lewis's brilliant narrative takes us into the particular engine rooms of a government under attack by simply its own leaders. Throughout Agriculture the funding associated with vital programs like food stamps and school lunches is being slashed. the particular Commerce Department might not have sufficient staff to conduct the particular 2020 Census properly. Over at Energy, where international indivisible risk is managed, it's not clear there will end up being enough inspectors to trail and locate black market uranium before terrorists do.

Willful ignorance plays a role Throughout these looming disasters. In the event that your ambition is usually to boost short-term gains without regard to the long-term price, you are better away from not knowing those expenses. If you want to preserve your personal immunity to the hard problems, it may be better never to definitely understand those problems. At this time there is upside to ignorance, and issue with knowledge. Understanding makes life messier. It makes it a little a lot more difficult for a man or woman who wishes to get smaller the world to a worldview.

When there are usually dangerous fools in this particular guide, there are also characters, unsung, of course. These people are the linchpins with the system―those public servants in whose knowledge, dedication, and proactivity keep the machinery jogging. Michael Lewis finds these people, and he asks them precisely what keeps them up with night.

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