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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction 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
