Updates

  1. Person pages list letters, writing, profiles and links as sortable tables with filters, and show each person's companies as links; Fund letters show each letter's description in its own column.
  2. Experts show a checked job title and a short description of each person; 30 more people have photographs.
  3. Every company, fund, university and publication the experts work for has a page listing the people there.
  4. Fund letters show each letter's thesis and filter by it; 225 person pages list the essays, columns and newsletter issues the person wrote.
  5. Person pages list every essay and newsletter issue a person wrote, and their own books as a table in List view.
  6. Recommends shows the five largest kinds of book and the rest under More; browse pictures load sooner.
  7. Podcasts and talks link the original episode, filter by Audio and video or Press, and list each publisher once.
  8. Pages are wider, Recommends has List and Grid, and a filter clicked again turns off.
  9. Book cards sit in a ruled grid with Open Library and Goodreads links and each book's one-line note.
  10. Funds is now Investors; each investor's styles are buttons that filter the table.
  11. Podcasts and talks on a person's page filter by year and publisher and show as a list or a grid of pictures.
  12. Quotes show only people's own words: 472 summaries written by list sites are gone.
  13. Country pages open from Browse again, and every link on the shelf lands on a page.
  14. Subject and person pages show their sections as tabs, and each book appears once on a person's page.
  15. Book cards show the quote, who said it and the source; grids show five cards to a row.
  16. On a phone, a menu holds the sections, search, Updates, Feedback and dark mode.
  17. Feedback takes a screenshot of the page with no browser prompt, opens a screenshot full size when you click it, and clears itself once sent.
  18. Book cards are centred, search names the topic each book sits in, and any text cut short shows whole on hover.
  19. Search groups its results by kind: people, companies, geographies, subjects, topics, books, funds, fund letters and papers.
  20. The Books table lists who recommended each book by name, and the browser tab names the section you are in.
  21. Feedback can take a screenshot of the page, or one you paste or choose, and opens in the corner beside Updates.
  22. Each rail button reopens its section where you left it, and Browse, Table and People show on every book and subject page.
  23. Filters grey out choices that hold nothing instead of hiding them, and Books › People filters by authors or recommenders.
  24. Feedback takes a subject line and up to three screenshots.
  25. Biographies are grouped by the person they are about: 41 new pages, from Abraham Lincoln to Lee Kuan Yew.
  26. Sport splits into 23 sports, and Religion into one topic per faith.
  27. Book lists show as cards: the cover, one recommendation quote and every recommender by name.
  28. Seventeen subjects that had two or three pages under different names now have one page each.
  29. Every page lists its Experts as authors and recommenders, with a link to them on the Experts tab.
  30. Economics, Financial history, Financial panics and Accounting are subjects of their own, with one page per financial crisis.
  31. Book, person and subject pages open inside the app, so the tabs stay in view.
  32. 996 more book covers, and photographs or logos for 227 more people and companies.
  33. Books › Browse shows every subject as cards, and the rail holds Fund letters, Papers, Experts, Books and Funds.
  34. Every topic over 150 books splits into narrower topics, each with a page of its own.

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Infrastructure and toll assets

Assets

Roads, ports, pipes and grids as long-duration cash flows; the literature is mostly project-finance technique plus one great narrative about who actually builds them.

Books 8Experts 1Recommenders 10

Start here

  1. How Big Things Get DoneBent Flyvbjerg, Dan Gardner, 2023
  2. The Power BrokerRobert A. Caro, 1974
  3. Megaprojects and RiskBent Flyvbjerg, Nils Bruzelius, Werner Rothengatter, 2003
  4. Principles of Project FinanceE. R. Yescombe, 2002
The Power BrokerThe Power Broker
T1 The Power Broker
Robert A. Caro · 1974
Open LibraryGoodreads

How an unelected official amassed power and used it to rebuild New York.

Recommended by: Balaji S. Srinivasan, Jim Collins and 8 others

Principles of Project FinancePrinciples of Project Finance
T2 Principles of Project Finance
E. R. Yescombe · 2002
Open LibraryGoodreads

The standard text on non-recourse financing of infrastructure projects.

Megaprojects and RiskMegaprojects and Risk
T2 Megaprojects and Risk
Bent Flyvbjerg, Nils Bruzelius, Werner Rothengatter · 2003
Open LibraryGoodreads

Data showing big infrastructure projects run over cost and under demand by design.

Public-Private PartnershipsPublic-Private Partnerships
T2 Public-Private Partnerships
E. R. Yescombe · 2010
Open LibraryGoodreads

How PPP concessions are structured, priced and argued over.

How Big Things Get DoneHow Big Things Get Done
T2 How Big Things Get Done
Bent Flyvbjerg, Dan Gardner · 2023
Open LibraryGoodreads

Why megaprojects overrun, and the reference-class forecasting correction.

Project Finance in Theory and PracticeProject Finance in Theory and Practice
T3 Project Finance in Theory and Practice
Stefano Gatti · 2007
Open LibraryGoodreads

How project finance deals are structured, with the theory and worked cases.

Infrastructure as an Asset ClassInfrastructure as an Asset Class
T3 Infrastructure as an Asset Class
Barbara Weber, Mirjam Staub-Bisang, Hans Wilhelm Alfen · 2010
Open LibraryGoodreads

Infrastructure's risk, return and role in a portfolio, from an allocator's view.

Infrastructure InvestingInfrastructure Investing
T4 Infrastructure Investing
Rajeev J. Sawant · 2010
Open LibraryGoodreads

Treats infrastructure as an asset class rather than a project-finance problem.

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