Tuesday, January 6, 2015

Links

Malcolm Gladwell reviews Steven Brill's America's Bitter Pill: Money, Politics, Back-Room Deals, and the Fight to Fix Our Broken Healthcare System about how health-care reform went wrong (LINK)

Love Him or Hate Him, Bill Ackman Now Runs the World’s Top Hedge Fund (LINK)

NetJets Unrest Puts Buffett in Rare Pinch (LINK)

Martin Wolf reviews Richard Koo's The Escape from Balance Sheet Recession (LINK)
Richard Koo has a big hammer: it is the idea of the “balance sheet recession” — which happens when the indebted focus on paying down debt. But people with hammers tend to view everything as a nail. Here, the chief economist of the Nomura Research Institute shows the virtues, but also the limitations, of his intellectual tool.
Bill Gates’ Plan to Help the Developing World Profit From Its Sewage (LINK)

Elon Musk: Ask Me Anything (LINK)

The Power of Market Creation: How Innovation Can Spur Development (LINK)

Paul Craven: THE HALO EFFECT AND THE MYTH OF BEST PRACTICES (LINK)
Related book: The Halo Effect