The Best Business Writing 2014 (Paperback)

A breakout success, our anthology of the year's best business investigative writing includes provocative essays on the ongoing collapse of American middle-class jobs under the weight of maximizing shareholder values ( "Washington Post"); the underground networks of financial exchange that insulate Russia from diplomatic consequences and real economic pain ( "New York Times"); the shady practices and libertarian ethos of the new Silicon Valley ( "Frankfurter Allgemeine," "London Review of Books"); and the implications of Sheryl Sandberg's "Lean-In" ( "The Baffler"), the most talked about career-advice book of the year.

Additional articles cover London's long history of embracing corrupt foreign money ( "Vanity Fair"); the crimes and misadventures of the young founder of Silk Road, the wildly successful online illegal goods site known as the "Ebay of vice" ( "Rolling Stone"); the secret dealings of an elite Wall Street society ( "New York"); the real failings of the Fed during the 2008 economic crisis ( "The Atlantic"); the PIMCO fund controversy ( "Wall Street Journal"); the brilliant campaign behind J. Crew's brand transformation ( "Fast Compan"y); the decline of the funeral business ( "Philadelphia"); the political plans of the Koch brothers ( "The" "New Yorker); the Amazon tax fight (Fortune"); and the science of junk food ( "New York Times Magazine").

Contributors include: Russell BrandGregg EasterbrookJesse EisingerSusan FaludiBen JudahLucy KellawayDavid KushnerJane MayerEvgeny MorozovMatthew O'BrienKevin RooseRebecca SolnitAshlee VanceJia Lynn Yang