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Corporate monopolies, gross mismanagement, retail delivery drones, the growing app economy-2015 was a year of profound changes in the world of business and finance. Offering clear-eyed assessments of these developments along with compelling profiles and muckraking reports, the incisive articles in this volume provide an essential guide for understanding business's influence on economics, politics, and culture. Selections include Sarah Maslin Nir's explosive expose of the nail-salon industry in the New York Times and the Associated Press's disheartening investigation into slave-labor practices abroad. The stories in this volume explore new frontiers in the way we do chores, eat takeout, order online, and dumpster-dive, showcasing business's rapid evolution under the influence of new technologies. Profiles include the amusing portrait of a young investor who made a fortune betting on penny stocks; the inspiring and cautionary story of an undocumented immigrant who became a star trader at Goldman Sachs; and the shocking account of a troubled financial prodigy who defrauded his inner circle of millions.
Claire Suddath adds her take on corporate America's broken maternity-leave system (Businessweek), and Charles Levinson reminds us of Wall Street's close ties to Washington in a probing look at the making (and unmaking) of the Dodd-Frank financial reform act (Reuters).
Contents
Introduction Acknowledgments Part I. Business Unusual 1. The Billionaire, the Dealer, and the $186 Million Rothko, by Stephanie Baker and Hugo Miller 2. "Let's, Like, Demolish Laundry," by Jessica Pressler 3. Monopoly's Inventor: The Progressive Who Didn't Pass "Go", by Mary Pilon 4. The Ur-Deli, by Jordan Weisman Part II. Labor and Its Discontents 5. The Price of Nice Nails, by Sarah Maslin Nir 6. Are Slaves Catching the Fish You Buy?, by Robin McDowell, Margie Mason, and Martha Mendoza 7. The Assistant Economy, by Francesca Mari 8. Can the U.S. Ever Fix Its Messed-Up Maternity Leave System?, by Claire Suddath 9. The Homeless Man Who Works in the Senate, by Catherine Rampell 10. Smothered by a Boom in Banking, by Gretchen Morgenson Part III. Technology: Behind the Screen 11. The Pro Dumpster Diver Who's Making Thousands Off America's Biggest Retailers, by Randall Sullivan 12. The Laborers Who Keep Dick Pics and Beheadings Out of Your Facebook Feed, by Adrian Chen 13. Amazon Must Be Stopped, by Franklin Foer 14. Inside Google's Secret Drone-Delivery Program, by Alexis C. Madrigal Part IV. Business Accountability 15. Boom: North America's Expensive Oil-by-Rail Problem, by Marcus Stern and Sebastian Jones 16. Firestone and the Warlord, by T. Christian Miller and Jonathan Jones 17. Lobbyists, Bearing Gifts, Pursue Attorneys General, by Eric Lipton 18. Killer Pharmacy: Inside a Medical Mass Murder Case, by Kurt Eichenwald 19. Gasping for Action, by Raquel Rutledge Part V. Financial Follies 20. Young Financier's Insurance Empire Collapses, by Mark Maremont and Leslie Scism 21. This Twenty-Seven-Year-Old Made Millions Riding the Death Spirals of Penny Stocks, by Zeke Faux 22. The Greatest Tax Story Ever Told, by Zachary Mider 23. How Wall Street Captured Washington's Effort to Rein in Banks, by Charles Levinson 24. How an Undocumented Immigrant from Mexico Became a Star at Goldman Sachs, by Max Abelson List of Contributors Permissions
