The Best Business Writing 2012 /

The Best Business Writing 2012 / / ed. by Martha Hamilton, Ryan Chittum, Felix Salmon, Dean Starkman.

An anthology Malcolm Gladwell has called "riveting and indispensable," The Best Business Writing is a far-ranging survey of business's dynamic relationship with politics, culture, and life. This year's selections include John Markoff (New York Times) on innovations in robot techn...

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MitwirkendeR:
Angell, Marcia,
Barrett, Rick,
Beck, Chad,
Bernstein, Jake,
Bolt, Adam,
Buffett, Warren,
Burke, Doris,
Carney, Brian M.,
Carter, Zach,
Chafkin, Max,
Collins, Lauren,
Davies, Nick,
Eisinger, Jesse,
Elkind, Peter,
Ferguson, Charles,
Freeland, Chrystia,
Gapper, John,
Goodell, Jeff,
Grant, Hugh,
Grim, Ryan,
Hill, Amelia,
Housel, Morgan,
Hudson, Michael,
Johnston, David Cay,
Krolicki, Kevin,
Krugman, Paul,
Kuang, Cliff,
Morgenson, Gretchen,
Pearlstein, Steven,
Reingold, Jennifer,
Rosen, Jay,
Rutledge, Raquel,
Segal, David,
Soar, Daniel,
Starkman, Dean,
Stewart, James B.,
Story, Louise,
Sydell, Laura,
Taibbi, Matt,
Weil, Jonathan,
Wolf, Martin,
Woodall, Bernie,
HerausgeberIn:
Chittum, Ryan,
Hamilton, Martha,
Salmon, Felix,
Starkman, Dean,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2012]
©2012
Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
Series:Columbia Journalism Review Books
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Physical Description:1 online resource (464 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Acknowledgments
  • Part I. Bad Business
  • 1. The Dark Lord of Coal Country. Rolling Stone
  • 2. Missing Milly Dowler's Voicemail Was Hacked by News of the World. The Guardian
  • 3. Phone-Hacking Crisis Shows News Corp Is No Ordinary News Company. The Guardian
  • 4. The Bugger, Bugged. The New Statesman
  • 5. A Case of Shattered Trust. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
  • Part II. The Financial System and Its Discontents
  • 6. The "Subsidy": How a Handful of Merrill Lynch Bankers Helped Blow Up Their Own Firm. ProPublica
  • 7. Countrywide Protected Fraudsters by Silencing Whistleblowers, Say Former Employees. iWatch News
  • 8. Curse the Geniuses Who Gave Us Bank of America. Bloomberg News
  • 9. Is the SEC Covering Up Wall Street Crimes?. Rolling Stone
  • 10. In Financial Crisis, No Prosecutions of Top Figures. The New York Times
  • Part III. Over There
  • 11. Time for Germany to Make Its Fateful Choice. Financial Times
  • 12. In Norway, Start-Ups Say Ja to Socialism. Inc.
  • Part IV. Politics and Money
  • 13. Swiped. The Huffington Post
  • 14. Stop Coddling the Super-Rich. The New York Times
  • 15. Blame for the Financial Mess Starts with the Corporate Lobby. Washington Post
  • 16. Nine Things the Rich Don't Want You to Know About Taxes. Association of Alternative Newsweeklies
  • 17. The Hijacked Crisis. The New York Times
  • 18. Greenspan, Rubin, and a Roomful of Hypocrites. The Motley Fool
  • Part V. The Big Picture
  • 19. The Rise of the New Global Elite. The Atlantic
  • 20. Can the World Still Feed Itself ?. The Wall Street Journal
  • 21. Law School Economics: Ka-Ching!. The New York Times
  • 22. When Patents Attack!. This American Life
  • 23. The Illusions of Psychiatry. The New York Review of Books
  • 24. From Inside Job. Representational Pictures
  • Part VI. Corporate Stories
  • 25. Inside Pfizer's Palace Coup. Fortune
  • 26. It Knows. London Review of Books
  • 27. Innovators Don't Ignore Customers. Financial Times
  • 28. House Perfect. The New Yorker
  • 29. Voting to Hire a Chief Without Meeting Him. The New York Times
  • 30. How Ford Became Last Man Standing. Reuters
  • 31. What Made Steve Jobs So Great?. Fast Company
  • Permissions
  • List of Contributors

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