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Table of ContentsIntroduction Acknowledgments Part I. On the Ground 1. The Sharp Sudden Decline of America's Middle Class, by Jeff Tietz, Rolling Stone 2. The Great American Foreclosure Story: The Struggle for Justice and a Place to Call Home, by Paul Kiel, ProPublica Part II. Bad Medicine 3. Bad to the Bone: A Medical Horror Story, by Mina Kimes, Fortune 4. Prescription for Addiction, by Thomas Catan, Devlin Barrett, and Timothy W. Martin, Wall Street Journal 5. Anemia Drugs Made Billions, but at What Cost? Peter Whoriskey, Washington Post Part III. Big Business 6. Making the World's Largest Airline Fly, by Drake Bennett, BusinessWeek 7. Gusher, by Steve Coll, The New Yorker Part IV. Bad Business 8. Vast Mexico Bribery Case Hushed Up by Wal-Mart After Top-Level Struggle, by David Barstow, New York Times 9. Chesapeake and Rival Plotted to Suppress Land Prices Brian Grow, by Joshua Schneyer, Reuters 10. Fear Fans Flames for Chemical Makers, by Patricia Callahan and Sam Roe, Chicago Tribune Part V. Media and Marketing 11. His. Hers., by Jessica Pressler, New York 12. Top Five Ways Bleacher Report Rules the World!, by Joe Eskenazi, San Francisco Weekly 13. Why India's Newspaper Industry Is Thriving, by Ken Auletta, The New Yorker 14. The Frequent Fliers Who Flew Too Much, by Ken Bensinger, Los Angeles Times Part VI. Big Think 15. Trade-offs Between Inequality, Productivity, and Employment, by Steve Randy Waldman, Interfluidity 16. The Naked and the TED, by Evgeny Morozov, The New Republic Part VII. Adventures in Finance 17. Wall Street Bonus Withdrawal Means Trading Aspen for Coupons, by Max Abelson, Bloomberg 18. The Tale of a Whale of a Fail, by Matt Levine, Dealbreaker 19. Case Against Bear and JPMorgan Provides Little Cheer, by Bethany McLean, Reuters 20. How ECB Chief Outflanked German Foe in Fight for Euro, by Brian Blackstone and Marcus Walker, Wall Street Journal 21. From The Trouble is the Banks, Edited by Mark Greif, Dayna Tortorici, Kathleen French, Emma Janaskie, and Nick Werle, n+1 22. Why I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs, by Greg Smith, New York Times 23. Death Takes a Policy: How a Lawyer Exploited the Fine Print and Found Himself Facing Federal Charges, by Jake Bernstein, ProPublica Part VIII. Brave New World 24. How Companies Learn Your Secrets, by Charles Duhigg, New York Times Magazine 25. Glass Works: How Corning Created the Ultrathin, Ultrastrong Material of the Future, by Bryan Gardiner, Wired 26. Skilled Work, by Without the Worker, by John Markoff, New York Times 27. I Was a Warehouse Wage Slave, by Mac McClelland, Mother Jones 28. In China, Human Costs Are Built Into an iPad, by Charles Duhigg and David Barboza, New York Times 29. How Apple and Amazon Security Flaws Led to My Epic Hacking, by Mat Honan, Wired Permissions List of Contributors
