The best business writing 2014 / edited by Dean Starkman, Martha M. Hamilton and Ryan Chittum.

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • New York : Columbia University Press, [2014]
  • ©2014
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1 online resource (593 p.)

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Series
Columbia journalism review books. [More in this series]
Summary note
A breakout success, our anthology of the year's best business investigative writing includes provocative essays on the ongoing collapse of American middle-class jobs under the weight of maximizing shareholder values (Washington Post); the underground networks of financial exchange that insulate Russia from diplomatic consequences and real economic pain (New York Times); the shady practices and libertarian ethos of the new Silicon Valley (Frankfurter Allgemeine, London Review of Books); and the implications of Sheryl Sandberg's Lean-In(The Baffler), the most talked about career-advice book of the year. Additional articles cover London's long history of embracing corrupt foreign money (Vanity Fair); the crimes and misadventures of the young founder of Silk Road, the wildly successful online illegal goods site known as the "Ebay of vice" (Rolling Stone); the secret dealings of an elite Wall Street society (New York); the real failings of the Fed during the 2008 economic crisis (The Atlantic); the PIMCO fund controversy (Wall Street Journal); the brilliant campaign behind J. Crew's brand transformation (Fast Company); the decline of the funeral business (Philadelphia); the political plans of the Koch brothers (TheNew Yorker); the Amazon tax fight (Fortune); and the science of junk food (New York Times Magazine).Contributors include: Russell Brand Gregg Easterbrook Jesse Eisinger Susan Faludi Ben Judah Lucy Kellaway David Kushner Jane Mayer Evgeny Morozov Matthew O'Brien Kevin Roose Rebecca Solnit Ashlee Vance Jia Lynn Yang
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Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 3, 2015).
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English
Contents
  • Front matter
  • Contents
  • Introduction / Starkman, Dean
  • Acknowledgments
  • Part I. Silicon Culture
  • 1. Why We Are Allowed to Hate Silicon Valley / Morozov, Evgeny
  • 2. Diary: Google Invades / Solnit, Rebecca
  • 3. Facebook Feminism, Like It or Not / Faludi, Susan
  • 4. Dead End on Silk Road / Kushner, David
  • Part II. Brave New Economic World
  • 5. A Tale of Two Londons / Shaxson, Nicholas
  • 6. London's Laundry Business / Judah, Ben
  • 7. How Technology and Hefty Subsidies Make U.S. Cotton King / Smith, Robert
  • 8. Invisible Child / Elliott, Andrea
  • 9. Russell Brand and the GQ Awards / Brand, Russell
  • 10. Maximizing Shareholder Value / Yang, Jia Lynn
  • Part III. Frenzied Finance
  • 11. One Percent Jokes and Plutocrats in Drag / Roose, Kevin
  • 12. Here's Why Wall Street Has a Hard Time Being Ethical / Arnade, Chris
  • 13. How the Fed Let the World Blow Up in 2008 / O'Brien, Matthew
  • 14. Gross vs. El-Erian / Zuckerman, Gregory / Grind, Kirsten
  • 15. Secret Currency Traders' Club Devised Biggest Market's Rates / Vaughan, Liam / Finch, Gavin / Ivry, Bob
  • 16. Lunch with the FT: Meredith Whitney / Kellaway, Lucy
  • 17. How the Case Against Bank of America CEO Fizzled / Eisinger, Jesse
  • Part IV. Unhealthy Business
  • 18. Use Only as Directed / Gerth, Jeff
  • 19. Merchants of Meth / Engle, Jonah
  • 20. The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food / Moss, Michael
  • 21. League of Denial / Kirk, Michael / Wiser, Mike / Fainaru, Steve / Fainaru-Wada, Mark
  • Part V. Creative Destruction
  • 22. How Jenna Lyons Transformed J.Crew Into a Cult Brand / Sacks, Danielle
  • 23. The Mysterious Story of the Battery Startup That Promised GM a 200-Mile Electric Car / LeVine, Steve
  • 24. The Death of the Funeral Business / Hingston, Sandy
  • 25. Declara Co-Founder Ramona Pierson's Comeback Odyssey / Vance, Ashlee
  • 26. A Toast Story / Gravois, John
  • Part VI. The Politics of Business
  • 27. Washington's Robust Market for Attacks, Half-Truths / Kranish, Michael
  • 28. He Who Makes the Rules / Sweetland Edwards, Haley
  • 29. A Word from Our Sponsor / Mayer, Jane
  • 30. Amazon's (Not So) Secret War on Taxes / Elkind, Peter / Burke, Doris
  • 31. How the NFL Fleeces Taxpayers / Easterbrook, Gregg
  • Contributors
  • Permissions
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ISBN
  • 9780231539173
  • 0231539177
OCLC
  • 902675784
  • 1011463091
  • 979577732
Doi
  • 10.7312/star17015
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