The Best Business Writing 2013 / / ed. by Felix Salmon, Martha Hamilton, Dean Starkman, Ryan Chittum.

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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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2013]
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Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Columbia Journalism Review Books
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Physical Description:1 online resource (568 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Acknowledgments
  • Part I. On the Ground
  • 1. The Sharp, Sudden Decline of America's Middle Class
  • 2. The Great American Foreclosure Story
  • Part II. Bad Medicine
  • 3. Bad to the Bone: A Medical Horror Story
  • 4. Prescription for Addiction
  • 5. Anemia Drugs Made Billions, but at What Cost?
  • Part III. Big Business
  • 6. Making the World's Largest Airline Fly
  • 7. Gusher
  • Part IV. Bad Business
  • 8. Vast Mexico Bribery Case Hushed Up by Wal-Mart After Top-Level Struggle
  • 9. Chesapeake and Rival Plotted to Suppress Land Prices
  • 10. Fear Fans Flames for Chemical Makers
  • Part V. Media and Marketing
  • 11. His. Hers.
  • 12. Top Five Ways Bleacher Report Rules the World!
  • 13. Why India's Newspaper Industry Is Thriving
  • 14. The Frequent Fliers Who Flew Too Much
  • Part VI. Big Think
  • 15. Trade-offs Between Inequality, Productivity, and Employment
  • 16. The Naked and the TED
  • Part VII. Adventures in Finance
  • 17. Wall Street Bonus Withdrawal Means Trading Aspen for Coupons
  • 18. The Tale of a Whale of a Fail
  • 19. Case Against Bear and JPMorgan Provides Little Cheer
  • 20. How ECB Chief Outflanked German Foe in Fight for Euro
  • 21. From The Trouble Is the Banks
  • 22. Why I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs
  • 23. Death Takes a Policy
  • Part VIII. Brave New World
  • 24. How Companies Learn Your Secrets
  • 25. Glass Works: How Corning Created the Ultrathin, Ultrastrong Material of the Future
  • 26. Skilled Work, Without the Worker
  • 27. I Was a Warehouse Wage Slave
  • 28. In China, Human Costs Are Built Into an iPad
  • 29. How Apple and Amazon Security Flaws Led to My Epic Hacking
  • Permissions
  • Contributors