Kyle Harrison
to-read
Capitalizing a Cure
Capitalizing a Cure: How Finance Controls the Price and Value of Medicines
- Author
- Victor Roy
- Published
- 2023
- Pages
- 216
- Recommended
- Once
Why it’s on the list: Roy uses the hepatitis C cure — a genuine medical triumph priced at $84,000 a course — to show how financial claims on a drug decide what it costs and who gets it.
Where I heard about it
- Barnes & Noble Huntington Beach (@bnhuntingtonbeach) — on the health-care-and-poverty shelf in the store’s BookTok video, “our personal syllabus for this semester as we say goodbye to tiktok.”
Connections
- Healthcare — the subject.
- Capital Allocation — the mechanism Roy is tracing.