Intro -- Table of Contents -- Introduction, by Dean Starkman -- 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 -- List of Contributors -- Permissions.

The year's most compelling and informative writing on Wall Street corruption, business rebranding, economics, finance, and Silicon Valley values-all in one volume.

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