05890nam 2200697 450 991078742680332120220810173108.00-231-53917-710.7312/star17015(CKB)3710000000346494(EBL)1974610(OCoLC)902675784(SSID)ssj0001454714(PQKBManifestationID)11928021(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001454714(PQKBWorkID)11497320(PQKB)10626157(DE-B1597)459492(OCoLC)1011463091(OCoLC)979577732(DE-B1597)9780231539173(Au-PeEL)EBL1974610(CaPaEBR)ebr11012168(CaONFJC)MIL690208(MiAaPQ)EBC1974610(EXLCZ)99371000000034649420150203h20142014 uy| 0engur|nu---|u||utxtccrThe best business writing 2014[electronic resource] /edited by Dean Starkman, Martha M. Hamilton and Ryan ChittumNew York :Columbia University Press,[2014]©20141 online resource (593 p.)Columbia journalism review booksDescription based upon print version of record.0-231-17015-7 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 --PermissionsA 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 YangColumbia journalism review books.Business writingBusinessBusinesspeopleBusiness enterprisesBusiness writing.Business.Businesspeople.Business enterprises.070.44965Starkman DeanHamilton Martha McNeilChittum RyanMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910787426803321The best business writing 20143791516UNINA