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02834aam a22003617i 4500 001 947FDA70F31211EEA2A0228A4CECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240405010125 008 191212s2019 meud d 000 0 eng d 020 $a 0393357457 020 $a 9780393357455 035 $a (OCoLC)1130595620 040 $a ZRS $b eng $e rda $c ZRS $d IO4 $d TLC $e rda $d SILO 043 $a n-us--- 050 4 $a E912 $b .L48 2019 100 1 $a Lewis, Michael $e author. $q (Michael M.) $0 (DLC)n 88200544 245 14 $a The fifth risk / $c Michael Lewis. 246 3 $a 5th risk 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b W.W. Norton, $c 2019. 300 $a 255 pages : $b charts ; $c 23 cm. 340 $n Large print $2 rda 505 0 $a Prologue: Lost in transition -- Tail risk -- People risk -- All the President's data. 520 $a "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 takes us into the engine rooms of a government under attack by its own leaders. At 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 gain without regard to the long-term cost, you are better off not knowing the cost. If you want to preserve your personal immunity to the hard problems, it's better never to really understand those problems. But 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. 650 0 $a Administrative agencies $z United States $x Management. $0 (DLC)sh2008117539 650 0 $a Government executives $z United States. $0 (DLC)sh 88002176 650 0 $a Public administration $z United States. $0 (DLC)sh2008109058 650 0 $a Civil service $z United States. $0 (DLC)sh 85026398 651 0 $a United States $x Politics and government $y 2017- $0 (DLC)n 78095330 941 $a 1 945 $a lpt 952 $l DFPC353 $d 20240430021132.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=947FDA70F31211EEA2A0228A4CECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IO4Initiate Another SILO Locator Search