The Best Business Writing 2014

Edited by Dean Starkman, Martha M. Hamilton, and Ryan Chittum

Introduction
Acknowledgments
Part I. Silicon Culture
1. Why We Are Allowed to Hate Silicon Valley, by Evgeny Morozov
2. Diary: Google Invades, by Rebecca Solnit
3. Facebook Feminism, Like It or Not, by Susan Faludi
4. Dead End on Silk Road: Internet Crime Kingpin Ross Ulbricht's Big Fail, by David Kushner
Part II. Brave New Economic World
5. A Tale of Two Londons, by Nicholas Shaxson
6. London's Laundry Business, by Ben Judah
7. How Technology and Hefty Subsidies Make U.S. Cotton King, by Robert Smith
8. Invisible Child: Girl in the Shadows: Dasani's Homeless Life, by Andrea Eliot
9. Russell Brand and the GQ Awards: "It's Amazing How Absurd It Seems", by Russell Brand
10. Maximizing Shareholder Value: The Goal That Changed Corporate America, by Jia Lynn Yang
Part III. Frenzied Finance
11. One Percent Jokes and Plutocrats in Drag: What I Saw When I Crashed a Wall Street Secret Society, by Kevin Roose
12. Here's Why Wall Street Has a Hard Time Being Ethical, by Chris Arnade
13. How the Fed Let the World Blow Up in 2008, by Matthew O'Brien
14. Gross vs. El-Erian: Inside the Showdown Atop the World's Biggest Bond Firm, by Gregory Zuckerman amd Kirsten Grind
15. Secret Currency Traders' Club Devised Biggest Market's Rates, by Liam Vaughan, Gavin Finch, and Bob Ivry
16. Lunch with the FT: Meredith Whitney, by Lucy Kellaway
17. A Pivotal Financial Crisis Case, Ending with a Whimper, by Jesse Eisinger
Part IV. Unhealthy Business
18. Use Only as Directed, by Jeff Gerth and T. Christian Miller
19. Merchants of Meth: How Big Pharma Keeps the Cooks in Business, by Jonah Engle
20. The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food, by Michael Moss
21. League of Denial: The NFL's Concussion Crisis, by Michael Kirk, Mike Wiser, Steve Fainaru, and Mark Fainaru-Wada
Part V. Creative Destruction
22. How Jenna Lyons Transformed J.Crew Into a Cult Brand, by Danielle Sacks
23. The Mysterious Story of the Battery Startup That Promised GM a 200-Mile Electric Car, by Steve LeVine
24. The Death of the Funeral Business, by Sandy Hingston
25. Declara Co-Founder Ramona Pierson's Comeback Odyssey, by Ashlee Vance
26. A Toast Story, by John Gravois
Part VI. The Politics of Business
27. Washington's Robust Market for Attacks, Half-Truths, by Michael Kranish
28. He Who Makes the Rules, by Haley Sweetland Edwards
29. A Word from Our Sponsor, by Jane Mayer
30. Amazon's (Not So) Secret War on Taxes, by Peter Elkind with Doris Burke
31. How the NFL Fleeces Taxpayers, by Gregg Easterbrook
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