| Description |
xviii, 439 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Series |
Columbia journalism review books. |
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Columbia journalism review books.
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| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
Bad business. The dark lord of coal country / Jeff Goodell ; Missing Milly Dowler's voicemail was hacked by News of the World / Nick Davies and Amelia Hill ; Phone-hacking crisis shows News Corp is no ordinary news company / Jay Rosen ; The bugger, bugged / Hugh Grant ; A case of shattered trust / Raquel Rutledge and Rick Barrett -- The financial system and its discontents. The "subsidy": how a handful of Merrill Lynch bankers helped blow up their own firm / Jake Bernstein and Jesse Eisinger ; Countrywide protected fraudsters by silencing whistleblowers, say former employees / Michael Hudson ; Curse the geniuses who gave us Bank of America / Jonathan Weil ; Is the SEC covering up Wall Street crimes? / Matt Taibbi ; In financial crisis, no prosecutions of top figures / Gretchen Mrgenson and Louise Story -- Over there. Time for Germany to make its fateful choice / Martin Wolf ; In Norway, start-ups say ja to socialism / Max Chafkin -- Politics and money. Swiped: banks, merchants, and why Washington doesn't work for you / Zach Carter and Ryan Grim ; Stop coddling the super-rich / Warren Buffett ; Blame for the financial mess starts with the corporate lobby / Steven Pearlstein ; Nine things the rich don't want you to know about taxes / David Cay Johnston ; The hijacked crisis / Paul Krugman ; Greenspan, Rubin, and a roomful of hypocrites / Morgan Housel -- The big picture. The rise of the new global elite / Christia Freeland ; Can the world still feed itself? / Brian M. Carney ; Law school economics: ka-ching! / David Segal ; When parents attack! / Alex Blumberg and Laura Sydell ; The illusions of psychiatry / Marcia Angell ; From Inside job / Charles Ferguson, Adam Bolt, and Chad Beck -- Corporate stories. Inside Pfizer's palace coup / Peter Elkind and Jennifer Reingold, with Doris Burke ; It knows / Daniel Soar ; Innovator's don't ignore customers / John Gapper ; House perfect / Lauren Collins ; Voting to hire a chief without meeting him / James B. Stewart ; How Ford became last man standing / Bernie Woodall and Kevin Krolicki ; What made Steve Jobs so great? / Cliff Kuang. |
| Subject |
Business.
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Businesspeople.
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Business enterprises -- Corrupt practices.
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| Added Author |
Starkman, Dean.
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| ISBN |
9780231160735 paperback $18.95 |
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0231160739 paperback |
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