Everyday Principals: Bosses, Brokers, Algorithms

The agency problem outside the boardroom: doctors paid fee-for-service, drivers managed by an app instead of a human, and private-equity owners squeezing the companies — and channels — they control. Who is the principal when the boss is a formula?

Playlist by @agency_problem

12 tracks, shared on Audicious.

  1. RAND and the Moral Hazard: Healthcare Triage #10 — Healthcare Triage
  2. How Are Doctors Paid? Value-Based vs Fee-for-Service Care — Med School Insiders
  3. Unnecessary medical interventions for higher profits? — Radar AVROTROS
  4. What is a gig economy? — TED-Ed
  5. The Gig Economy is Full — How Money Works
  6. The Gig Economy Was Always A Scam — Wisecrack
  7. From Degrees to Deliveries | Inside the Life of Europe's Delivery Riders — Danial Ray
  8. How Private Equity Ate Britain — Bloomberg Originals
  9. How Private Equity Consumed America — Wendover Productions
  10. How private equity conquered America | The Chris Hedges Report — The Real News Network
  11. How Private Equity Turns Your Favorite Channels Into Slop — GEN
  12. Larry Fink - The Most Powerful Man in Finance | A Documentary — FINAiUS