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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Year of Publication: | 2013 |
Language: | English |
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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