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The Best Business Writing 2014

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Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2014

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The year’s most compelling and informative writing on Wall Street corruption, business rebranding, economics, finance, and Silicon Valley values—all in one volume.

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Dean Starkman is based in New York and covers Wall Street as a staff writer for the Los Angeles Times. A reporter for two decades, he worked for eight years as a Wall Street Journal staff writer and was chief of the Providence Journal's investigative unit. He has won numerous national and regional journalism awards and helped lead the Providence Journal to the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Investigations. He is the author of The Watchdog That Didn't Bark: The Financial Crisis and the Disappearance of Investigative Journalism.

Martha M. Hamilton is a contributor to the Washington Post's "Get There," a new section on money and its power to change lives. She is also the author, along with former Post colleague Warren Brown, of Black and White and Red All Over.

Ryan Chittum is a senior writer at the Columbia Journalism Review and a former reporter for the Wall Street Journal. He has written for numerous other publications, including the New York Times. He is also a contributor to Bad News: How America's Business Press Missed the Story of the Century. His recent work can be seen at www.cjr.org/author/ryan-chittum-1/.

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    Frontmatter

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    Contents

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    Introduction

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    Dean Starkman
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    Acknowledgments

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  • Part I. Silicon Culture
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    1. Why We Are Allowed to Hate Silicon Valley

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    Evgeny Morozov
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    2. Diary: Google Invades

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    Rebecca Solnit
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    3. Facebook Feminism, Like It or Not

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    Susan Faludi
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    4. Dead End on Silk Road

    56
    David Kushner
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  • Part II. Brave New Economic World
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    5. A Tale of Two Londons

    78
    Nicholas Shaxson
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    6. London’s Laundry Business

    100
    Ben Judah
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    7. How Technology and Hefty Subsidies Make U.S. Cotton King

    104
    Robert Smith
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    8. Invisible Child

    136
    Andrea Elliott
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    9. Russell Brand and the GQ Awards

    152
    Russell Brand
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    10. Maximizing Shareholder Value

    160
    Jia Lynn Yang
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  • Part III. Frenzied Finance
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    11. One Percent Jokes and Plutocrats in Drag

    172
    Kevin Roose
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    12. Here’s Why Wall Street Has a Hard Time Being Ethical

    180
    Chris Arnade
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    13. How the Fed Let the World Blow Up in 2008

    186
    Matthew O’Brien
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    14. Gross vs. El-Erian

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    Gregory Zuckerman and Kirsten Grind
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    15. Secret Currency Traders’ Club Devised Biggest Market’s Rates

    206
    Liam Vaughan, Gavin Finch and Bob Ivry
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    16. Lunch with the FT: Meredith Whitney

    222
    Lucy Kellaway
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    17. How the Case Against Bank of America CEO Fizzled

    232
    Jesse Eisinger
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  • Part IV. Unhealthy Business
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    18. Use Only as Directed

    240
    Jeff Gerth
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    19. Merchants of Meth

    272
    Jonah Engle
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    20. The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food

    292
    Michael Moss
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    21. League of Denial

    322
    Michael Kirk, Mike Wiser, Steve Fainaru and Mark Fainaru-Wada
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  • Part V. Creative Destruction
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    22. How Jenna Lyons Transformed J.Crew Into a Cult Brand

    384
    Danielle Sacks
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    23. The Mysterious Story of the Battery Startup That Promised GM a 200-Mile Electric Car

    400
    Steve LeVine
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    24. The Death of the Funeral Business

    426
    Sandy Hingston
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    25. Declara Co-Founder Ramona Pierson’s Comeback Odyssey

    440
    Ashlee Vance
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    26. A Toast Story

    452
    John Gravois
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  • Part VI. The Politics of Business
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    27. Washington’s Robust Market for Attacks, Half-Truths

    466
    Michael Kranish
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    28. He Who Makes the Rules

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    Haley Sweetland Edwards
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    29. A Word from Our Sponsor

    514
    Jane Mayer
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    30. Amazon’s (Not So) Secret War on Taxes

    528
    Peter Elkind and Doris Burke
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    31. How the NFL Fleeces Taxpayers

    548
    Gregg Easterbrook
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    Contributors

    561
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    Permissions

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