The 5th Risk

Since the end of the Second World War, weather data collection has become one of the greatest illustrations of the possibilities of global collaboration and public-spiritedness. Every day thousands of amateur weather observers report data to their governments, as do a lot of experts aboard commercial planes in the sky and ships at sea. Everyday, twice a day, weather balloons are released from nine hundred different spots on the globe, ninety-two of them by the U.S. government. A half-dozen countries, including the United States, deploy thousands of buoys to collect weather from the ocean surface. Then there's the data collected by billion-dollar satellites and fancy radar stations - in the United States alone, the National Weather Service maintains 159 high-resolution Doppler radar sites.

Michael Lewis' The Fifth Risk beschäftigt sich mit den "neoliberalen" Taktiken und Verhaltensweisen, die dazu tendieren, wichtige öffentliche Arbeiten und Prozesse aus rein ideologischen Gründen zu behindern und zu zerstören. "Highly recommended" für alle, die sich gedanklich damit auseinandersetzen, welche Arbeiten besser von der Gemeinschaft und welche besser von Individuen erledigt und gelenkt werden sollen.