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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Starkman, Dean, editor.

Hamilton, Martha McNeil, editor.

Chittum, Ryan, editor.

Series:

Columbia journalism review books.

Columbia journalism review books

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Business writing.

Business.

Businesspeople.

Business enterprises.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (593 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

PDF

Summary:

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

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

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Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 3, 2015).

ISBN:

9780231539173

0231539177

OCLC:

902675784