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 Times, announcing his break with Goldman Sachs over its trading practices and corrupt corporate ethos.
Jessica Pressler (New York) delves into the personal and professional rivalry between former spouses and fashion competitors Tory and Christopher Burch. Peter Whoriskey (Washington Post) exposes the human cost of promoting pharmaceuticals for off-label uses. Charles Duhigg and David Barboza (New York Times) investigate Apple's unethical labor practices in China. Max Abelson (Bloomberg) reports on Wall Street's amusing reaction to the diminishing annual bonus. Mina Kimes (Fortune) recounts the grisly story of a company's illegal testing—and misuse—of a medical device for profit, and Jeff Tietz (Rolling Stone) composes one of the most poignant and comprehensive portraits of the financial crisis's dissolution of the American middle class.
- Contents
- Introduction
- Acknowledgments
- PART I Bad Business
- 1. The Dark Lord of Coal Country
- 2. Missing Milly Dowler's Voicemail Was Hacked by News of the World
- 3. Phone-Hacking Crisis Shows News Corp Is No Ordinary News Company
- 4. The Bugger, Bugged
- 5. A Case of Shattered Trust
- PART II The Financial System and Its Discontents
- 6. The "Subsidy"
- 7. Countrywide Protected Fraudsters by Silencing Whistleblowers, Say Former Employees
- 8. Curse the Geniuses Who Gave Us Bank of America
- 9. Is the SEC Covering Up Wall Street Crimes?
- 10. In Financial Crisis, No Prosecutions of Top Figures
- PART III Over There
- 11. Time for Germany to Make Its Fateful Choice
- 12. In Norway, Start-Ups Say Ja to Socialism
- PART IV Politics and Money
- 13. Swiped
- 14. Stop Coddling the Super-Rich
- 15. Blame for Financial Mess Starts with the Corporate Lobby
- 16. Nine Things the Rich Don't Want You to Know About Taxes
- 17. The Hijacked Crisis
- 18. Greenspan, Rubin, and a Roomful of Hypocrites
- PART V The Big Picture
- 19. The Rise of the New Global Elite
- 20. Can the World Still Feed Itself?
- 21. Law School Economics: Ka-Ching!
- 22. When Patents Attack!
- 23. The Illusions of Psychiatry
- 24. From Inside Job
- PART VI Corporate Stories
- 25. Inside Pfizer's Palace Coup
- 26. It Knows
- 27. Innovators Don't Ignore Customers
- 28. House Perfect
- 29. Voting to Hire a Chief Without Meeting Him
- 30. How Ford Became Last Man Standing
- 31. What Made Steve Jobs So Great?
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- Contributors
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