| Description |
1 online resource (570 pages). |
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Columbia journalism review books |
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Columbia journalism review books.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Why we are allowed to hate Silicon valley / Evgeny Morozov -- Diary: Google invades / Rebecca Solnit -- Facebook feminism, like it or not / Susan Faludi -- Dead end on Silk Road: internet crime kingpin Ross Ulbricht's big fail / David Kushner -- A tale of two Londons / Nicholas Shaxson -- London's laundry business / Ben Judah -- How technology and hefty subsidies make U.S. cotton king / Robert Smith, Caitlin Kenney, Zoe Chace, Jacob Goldstein, and Alex Blumberg -- Invisible child: girl in the shadows: Dasani's homeless life / Andrea Elliott -- Russell Brand and the GQ awards: "It's amazing how absurd it seems" / Russell Brand -- Maximizing shareholder value: the goal that changed corporate America / Jia Lynn Yang -- One percent jokes and plutocrats in drag: what I saw when I crashed a Wall Street secret society / Kevin Roose -- Here's why Wall Street has a hard time being ethical / Chris Arnade -- How the Fed let the world blow up in 2008 / Matthew O'Brien -- Gross vs. El-Erian: inside the showdown atop the world's biggest bond firm / Gregory Zuckerman and Kirsten Grind -- Secret currency traders' club devised biggest market's rates / Liam Vaughan, Gavin Finch, and Bob Ivry -- Lunch with the FT: Meredith Whitney / Lucy Kellaway -- How the case against Bank of America CEO fizzles / Jesse Eisinger -- Use only as directed / Jeff Gerth and T. Christian Miller -- Merchants of meth: how big pharma keeps the cooks in business / Johan Engle -- The extraordinary science of addictive junk food / Michael Moss -- League of denial: the NFL's concussion crisis / Michael Kirk, Mike Wiser, Steve Fainaru, and Mark Fainaru-Wada -- How Jenna Lyons transformed J. Crew into a cult brand / Danielle Sacks -- The mysterious story of the battery startup that promised GM a 200-mile electric car / Steve LeVine -- The death of the funeral business / Sandy Hingston -- Declara co-founder Ramona Pierson's comeback odyssey / Ashlee Vance -- A toast story / John Gravois -- Washington's robust market for attacks, half-truths / Michael Kranish -- He who makes the rules / Haley Sweetland Edwards -- A word from our sponsor / Jane Mayer -- Amazon's (not so) secret war on taxes / Peter Elkind with Doris Burke -- How the NFL fleeces taxpayers / Gregg Easterbrook. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Subject |
Business.
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Businesspeople.
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Business enterprises -- Corrupt practices.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Reference.
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Business. (OCoLC)fst00842262
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Business enterprises -- Corrupt practices.
(OCoLC)fst00842538
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Businesspeople. (OCoLC)fst00842980
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / General.
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| Added Author |
Starkman, Dean, editor.
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Hamilton, Martha McNeil, editor.
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Chittum, Ryan, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Best business writing 2014. New York : Columbia University Press, [2014] 9780231170154 (OCoLC)880247114 |
| ISBN |
9780231539173 (electronic book) |
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0231539177 (electronic book) |
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9781322589268 (electronic book) |
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1322589267 (electronic book) |
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