What are the consequences if the people given control over our government have no idea how it works? Stay tuned.
"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. Commerce 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...
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Open line. Studiehandledning

Lewis, Michael

Tony Cutler

Hermod/Almqvist & Wiksell

Utbildningsförlaget

Liber ekonomi

LiberHermod

Sweden, Sweden

2019

101

PT

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Please Note That The Following Individual Books As Per Original ISBN and Cover Image In this Listing shall be Dispatched Collectively:
Michael Lewis 3 Books Collection Set (The Undoing Project, The Fifth Risk [Hardcover], Flash Boys):
The Undoing Project:
In 1969 two men met on a university campus. Their names were Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky.They were different in every way. But they were both obsessed with the human mind - and both happened to be geniuses. Together, they would change the way we see the world.
The Fifth Risk [Hardcover]:
The morning after Trump was elected president, the people who ran the US Department of Energy - an agency that deals with some of the most powerful risks facing humanity - waited to welcome the incoming administration's transition team. Nobody appeared. Across the US government, the same thing happened: nothing.
Flash Boys:
Michael Lewis's epic bestseller tells the outrageous story of the multi-millionaires and whizz kids who scammed the banking system in the blink of an eye - and the whistleblowers who tried to stop them. It's hilarious, terrifying and it's all true.

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