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1 online resource (464 pages) |
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Introduction -- Acknowledgments -- On the ground -- The sharp, sudden decline of America's middle class / Jeff Tietz, Rolling Stone -- The great American foreclosure story : the struggle for justice and a place to call home / Paul Kiel -- Propublica -- Bad medicine -- Bad to the bone : a medical horror story / Mina Kimes -- Fortune -- Prescription for addiction / Thomas Catan, Devlin Barrett, and Timothy W. Martin -- Wall Street Journal -- Anemia drugs made billions, but at what cost? / Peter Whoriskey -- Washington Post -- Big business -- Making the world's largest airline fly / Drake Bennett -- Businessweek -- Gusher / Steve Coll -- The New Yorker -- Bad business -- Vast Mexico bribery case hushed up by Wal-Mart after top-level struggle / David Barstow -- New york times -- Chesapeake and rival plotted to suppress land prices / Brian Grow, Joshua Schneyer, and Janet Roberts -- Reuters -- Fear fans flames for chemical makers / Patricia Callahan and Sam Roe -- Chicago Tribune -- Media and marketing -- His. Hers. / Jessica Pressler -- New York -- Top five ways bleacher report rules the world! / Joe Eskenazi -- San Francisco Weekly -- Why India's newspaper industry is thriving / Ken Auletta -- The New Yorker -- The frequent fliers who flew too much / Ken Bensinger -- Los Angeles Times -- Big think -- Trade-offs between inequality, productivity, and employment / Steve Randy Waldman -- Interfluidity -- The naked and the Ted / Evgeny Morozov -- The National Review -- Adventures in finance -- Wall Street bonus withdrawal means trading aspen for coupons / Max Abelson -- Bloomberg -- The tale of a whale of a fail / Matt Levine -- Dealbreaker -- Case against bear and JPMorgan provides little cheer / Bethany McLean -- Reuters -- How ECB chief outflanked German foe in fight for euro / Brian Blackstone and Marcus Walker -- Wall Street Journal -- From the trouble is the banks / edited by Mark Greif, Dayna Tortorici, Kathleen French, Emma Janaskie, and Nick Werle |
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Please don't harass my father any further / Deena DeNaro -- Why I am leaving Goldman Sachs / Greg Smith -- New york times -- Death takes a policy : how a lawyer exploited the fine print and found himself -- Facing federal charges / Jake Bernstein -- Propublica -- Brave new world -- How companies learn your secrets / Charles Duhigg -- New york times magazine -- Glass works : how corning created the ultrathin, ultrastrong material of the future / Bryan Gardiner -- Wired -- Skilled work, without the worker / John Markoff -- New York Times -- I was a warehouse wage slave / Mac McClelland -- Mother jones -- In China, human costs are built into an iPad / Charles Duhigg and David Barboza -- New York Times -- How apple and Amazon security flaws led to my EPIC hacking / Mat Honan -- Wired -- Permissions -- List of contributors |
| Summary |
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 technology and the decline of the factory worker; Evgeny Morozov (New Republic) on the questionable value of the popular TED conference series and the idea industry behind it; Paul Kiel (ProPublica) on the ripple effects of the ongoing foreclosure crisis; and the infamous op-ed by Greg Smith, published in the New York |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Business.
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Businesspeople.
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Business enterprises -- Corrupt practices
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businesses (business enterprises)
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Business
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Business enterprises -- Corrupt practices
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Businesspeople
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Hamilton, Martha
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Chittum, Ryan
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Salmon, Felix
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| ISBN |
9780231535175 |
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0231535171 |
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