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 |