The celebrated author returns with more of his elegantly wrought theories — but do they add up?
Did Philip Esformes, the businessman turned Medicare fraudster, commit his crimes for the money — or because he moved to Miami? In his compelling new book, Revenge of the Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell sets out how the city’s culture and institutions were hit by a series of events that made it a place where corruption and lawlessness demonstrated crime really did pay.
As Gladwell writes, the Esformes family “had a few, relatively minor, run-ins with the regulators in Illinois”. I am not 10,000 hours away from being a concert pianist. Reading Revenge of the Tipping Point, I found myself thinking like Fox Mulder in The X Files: I want to believe! I want to believe in the various catchy bits of social science that Gladwell suggests are rules.
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