I love this frame for learning something new, so I’ll toss out a triad of books.
Subject: Journalism (These works are more complementary than overlapping. The third selection is an example rather than an explanation. It could easily be substituted with The Right Stuff or Frank Sinatra Has a Cold or any work that speaks to you.)
What: The Investigative Reporter’s Handbook: A Guide to Documents, Databases, and Techniques
How: Writing for Story, Jon Franklin
Why: All the President’s Men
As an aside, I’d push back gently against using a dollar figure for the statistical value of a human life to set the value on any single life-saving (or life-sustaining) product. I may be misunderstanding the concept, but it seems like assigning the entire value of a saved life to one product used in one instance would be a mistake.
My thought process: If every additional tool used to save any life (or the same life multiple times) is valued at the full $9 million per each life saved, then the actual “value” of a life would be many, many, many multiples of $9 million.
All that said, it is interesting to read this post in light of efforts to ramp up production of ventilators and masks.