The best business writing 2012 / edited by Dean Starkman ... [et. al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Starkman, Dean.

Series:

Columbia Journalism Review Books

Columbia journalism review books

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Business enterprises--Corrupt practices.

Business enterprises.

Business.

Businesspeople.

Journalism, Commercial.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (463 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, c2012.

Summary:

Launched at a time of major economic change and an uncommon era in business, this new annual series presents the most intriguing and rigorous coverage of the year's well-known and crucial-to-know developments in business and finance. Divided into thematic sections, such as bad business behavior; the financial system and its discontents; trends in global markets; the relationship between politics and money; big-picture practices; and news from the corporate world, the anthology fills a longstanding gap for those seeking diverse, enriching, yet entertaining perspectives on the business of b

Contents:

Contents; Introduction; Acknowledgments; PART I Bad Business; 1. The Dark Lord of Coal Country; 2. Missing Milly Dowler's Voicemail Was Hacked by News of the World; 3. Phone-Hacking Crisis Shows News Corp Is No Ordinary News Company; 4. The Bugger, Bugged; 5. A Case of Shattered Trust; PART II The Financial System and Its Discontents; 6. The ""Subsidy""; 7. Countrywide Protected Fraudsters by Silencing Whistleblowers, Say Former Employees; 8. Curse the Geniuses Who Gave Us Bank of America; 9. Is the SEC Covering Up Wall Street Crimes?; 10. In Financial Crisis, No Prosecutions of Top Figures

PART III Over There11. Time for Germany to Make Its Fateful Choice; 12. In Norway, Start-Ups Say Ja to Socialism; PART IV Politics and Money; 13. Swiped; 14. Stop Coddling the Super-Rich; 15. Blame for Financial Mess Starts with the Corporate Lobby; 16. Nine Things the Rich Don't Want You to Know About Taxes; 17. The Hijacked Crisis; 18. Greenspan, Rubin, and a Roomful of Hypocrites; PART V The Big Picture; 19. The Rise of the New Global Elite; 20. Can the World Still Feed Itself?; 21. Law School Economics: Ka-Ching!; 22. When Patents Attack!; 23. The Illusions of Psychiatry

24. From Inside JobPART VI Corporate Stories; 25. Inside Pfizer's Palace Coup; 26. It Knows; 27. Innovators Don't Ignore Customers; 28. House Perfect; 29. Voting to Hire a Chief Without Meeting Him; 30. How Ford Became Last Man Standing; 31. What Made Steve Jobs So Great?; Permissions; Contributors

Notes:

Includes index.

OCLC:

818856758