The best business writing 2012
By: edited by Dean Starkman ... [et. al.].
Series: Columbia journalism review books; Columbia journalism review books
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 439
ISBN-13: 9780231160735
Subjects: Business enterprises; Corrupt practices; Businesspeople; Business
Table of contents: title: Bad business.; title: The dark lord of coal country  -- Jeff Goodell ;; title: Missing Milly Dowler's voicemail was hacked by News of the World  -- Nick Davies and Amelia Hill ;; title: Phone-hacking crisis shows News Corp is no ordinary news company  -- Jay Rosen ;; title: The bugger, bugged  -- Hugh Grant ;; title: A case of shattered trust  -- Raquel Rutledge and Rick Barrett -- The financial system and its discontents.; title: The "subsidy": how a handful of Merrill Lynch bankers helped blow up their own firm  -- Jake Bernstein and Jesse Eisinger ;; title: Countrywide protected fraudsters by silencing whistleblowers, say former employees  -- Michael Hudson ;; title: Curse the geniuses who gave us Bank of America  -- Jonathan Weil ;; title: Is the SEC covering up Wall Street crimes?  -- Matt Taibbi ;; title: In financial crisis, no prosecutions of top figures  -- Gretchen Mrgenson and Louise Story -- Over there.; title: Time for Germany to make its fateful choice  -- Martin Wolf ;; title: In Norway, start-ups say ja to socialism  -- Max Chafkin -- Politics and money.; title: Swiped: banks, merchants, and why Washington doesn't work for you  -- Zach Carter and Ryan Grim ;; title: Stop coddling the super-rich  -- Warren Buffett ;; title: Blame for the financial mess starts with the corporate lobby  -- Steven Pearlstein ;; title: Nine things the rich don't want you to know about taxes  -- David Cay Johnston ;; title: The hijacked crisis  -- Paul Krugman ;; title: Greenspan, Rubin, and a roomful of hypocrites  -- Morgan Housel -- The big picture.; title: The rise of the new global elite  -- Christia Freeland ;; title: Can the world still feed itself?  -- Brian M. Carney ;; title: Law school economics: ka-ching!  -- David Segal ;; title: When parents attack!  -- Alex Blumberg and Laura Sydell ;; title: The illusions of psychiatry  -- Marcia Angell ;; title: From Inside job  -- Charles Ferguson, Adam Bolt, and Chad Beck -- Corporate stories.; title: Inside Pfizer's palace coup  -- Peter Elkind and Jennifer Reingold, with Doris Burke ;; title: It knows  -- Daniel Soar ;; title: Innovator's don't ignore customers  -- John Gapper ;; title: House perfect  -- Lauren Collins ;; title: Voting to hire a chief without meeting him  -- James B. Stewart ;; title: How Ford became last man standing  -- Bernie Woodall and Kevin Krolicki ;; title: What made Steve Jobs so great? -- Cliff Kuang.