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The Best Business Writing 2014.
Title:
The Best Business Writing 2014.
Author:
Starkman, Dean.
ISBN:
9780231539173
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (365 pages)
Series:
Columbia Journalism Review Books
Contents:
Cover -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- Acknowledgments -- Part I. Silicon Culture -- 1. Why We Are Allowed to Hate Silicon Valley -- 2. Diary: Google Invades -- 3. Facebook Feminism, Like It or Not -- 4. Dead End on Silk Road: Internet Crime Kingpin Ross Ulbricht's Big Fail -- Part II. Brave New Economic World -- 5. A Tale of Two Londons -- 6. London's Laundry Business -- 7. How Technology and Hefty Subsidies Make U.S. Cotton King -- 8. Invisible Child: Girl in the Shadows: Dasani's Homeless Life -- 9. Russell Brand and the GQ Awards: "It's Amazing How Absurd It Seems" -- 10. Maximizing Shareholder Value: The Goal That Changed Corporate America -- Part III. Frenzied Finance -- 11. One Percent Jokes and Plutocrats in Drag: What I Saw When I Crashed a Wall Street Secret Society -- 12. Here's Why Wall Street Has a Hard Time Being Ethical -- 13. How the Fed Let the World Blow Up in 2008 -- 14. Gross vs. El-Erian: Inside the Showdown Atop the World's Biggest Bond Firm -- 15. Secret Currency Traders' Club Devised Biggest Market's Rates -- 16. Lunch with the FT: Meredith Whitney -- 17. How the Case Against Bank of America CEO Fizzled -- Part IV. Unhealthy Business -- 18. Use Only as Directed -- 19. Merchants of Meth: How Big Pharma Keeps the Cooks in Business -- 20. The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food -- 21. League of Denial: The NFL's Concussion Crisis -- Part V. Creative Destruction -- 22. How Jenna Lyons Transformed J.Crew Into a Cult Brand -- 23. The Mysterious Story of the Battery Startup That Promised GM a 200-Mile Electric Car -- 24. The Death of the Funeral Business -- 25. Declara Co-Founder Ramona Pierson's Comeback Odyssey -- 26. A Toast Story -- Part VI. The Politics of Business -- 27. Washington's Robust Market for Attacks, Half-Truths -- 28. He Who Makes the Rules.

29. A Word from Our Sponsor -- 30. Amazon's (Not So) Secret War on Taxes -- 31. How the NFL Fleeces Taxpayers -- List of Contributors -- Permissions.
Abstract:
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 i.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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