The Best Business Writing 2014 Dean Starkman, Martha M. Hamilton,
and Ryan Chittum, Editors The y ea r ’ s m ost co m pe lli n g a n d i n fo r m at i v e writing on Wal l St r e e t co r r u pt i o n , bu s i n e ss re b r a nd ing, econ o m i c s , fi n a n c e , a n d S i li co n Va lley va lues —a ll i n o n e vo lu m e .
A breakout success, our anthology of the year’s best investigative business writing includes provocative essays on the ongoing collapse of American middle-class jobs under the weight of maximizing shareholder values (Washington Post); the underground networks of financial exchange that insulate Russia from diplomatic consequences and real economic pain (New York Times); the shady practices and libertarian ethos of the new Silicon Valley (Frankfurter Allgemeine, London Review of Books); and the implications of Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean-In, the most talked about career-advice book of the year (The Baffler). Additional articles cover London’s long history of embracing corrupt foreign money (Vanity Fair); the crimes and misadventures of the young founder of Silk Road, the wildly successful online illegal goods site known as the “Ebay of vice” (Rolling Stone); the secret dealings of an elite Wall Street society (New York); the real failings of the Fed during the 2008 economic crisis (The Atlantic); the PIMCO fund controversy (Wall Street Journal); the brilliant campaign behind J. Crew’s brand transformation (Fast Company); the decline of the funeral business (Philadelphia); the political plans of the Koch brothers (The New Yorker); the Amazon tax fight (Fortune); and the science of junk food (New York Times Magazine). Dean Starkman
Contributors include: Russell Brand Gregg Easterbrook Jesse Eisinger Susan Faludi Ben Judah Lucy Kellaway David Kushner Jane Mayer Evgeny Morozov Matthew O’Brien Kevin Roose Rebecca Solnit Ashlee Vance Jia Lynn Yang
is editor of the Columbia Journalism Review’s
“The Audit” and the author of The Watchdog That Didn’t Bark: The Financial Crisis and the Disappearance of Investigative Journalism. Martha M. Hamilton
is a writer and deputy editor with
PolitiFact.com.
$18.95t / £12.95 paper 978-0-231-17015-4 DE c e m b e r 568 pages
Ryan Chittum
is deputy editor of CJR’s “The Audit.”
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