Book Description

“Spend! Spend! Spend! Where Did Tyco’s Money Go?” by James B. Stewart, fromThe New Yorker “The Decline and Fall of the Cult of Equity” by Andrew Hill, from theFinancial Times “The Death of One American Dream” by Shirleen Holt, fromThe Seattle Times “Shattered Dynasty” by Suzanna Andrews, fromVanity Fair “For Richer” by Paul Krugman, fromThe New York Times Magazine “In Defense of the Boom” by Michael Lewis, fromThe New York Times Magazine “The Telecom Boom’s Dark Remnants” by Michael Guillen, fromThe Oregonian “Rich Man, Poor Company” by Chris O’Brien and Jack Davis, from theSan Jose Mercury News “Deciding on Executive Pay: Lack of Independence Seen” by Diana B. Henriques and Geraldine Fabrikant, fromThe New York Times “How It All Fell Apart” by Johnnie L. Roberts, fromNewsweek “Planet Starbucks” by Stanley Holmes, Drake Bennett, Kate Carlisle, and Chester Dawson, fromBusinessWeek “The Google Gods” by Stefanie Olsen, from CNET News.com “Up Against Wal-Mart” by Karen Olsson, fromMother Jones “Is Our Children Learning?” by Julie Landry, fromRed Herring “The Investigation: How Eliot Spitzer Humbled Wall Street” by John Cassidy, fromThe New Yorker “Inside the Rock” by Loch Adamson, fromWorth “Unfair Disclosure” by Bob Drummond, fromBloomberg Markets “Inside McKinsey” by John A. Byrne, fromBusinessWeek “Alliance Capital’s Bad Bets” by Edward Robinson, fromBloomberg Markets “Where the Money’s Really Made” by Andy Serwer, fromFortune “The Economics of Empire” by William Finnegan, fromHarper’s Magazine “The Debt Bomb” by Jonathan R. Laing, fromBarron’s “Big Bucks, Small Town, Bond Haven” by Noelle Haner-Dorr, fromOrlando Business Journal “Flight into the Red” by Steve Huettel, from theSt. Petersburg Times “Full Price: A Young Woman, an Appendectomy, and a $19,000 Debt” by Lucette Lagnado, fromThe Wall Street Journal “The Fall of Andersen” by Delroy Alexander, Greg Burns, Robert Manor, Flynn McRoberts and E. A. Torriero, from theChicago Tribune “Why Good Accountants Do Bad Audits” by Max H. Bazerman, George Loewenstein and Don A. Moore, fromHarvard Business Review “Troubling Options—Inside the Tough Call at Sprint” by Rebecca Blumenstein and Carol Hymowitz, fromThe Wall Street Journal “Wild, Wild Qwest” by Lou Kilzer, David Milstead, and Jeff Smith, from theRocky Mountain News “The New Face of Shoplifting” by Joanne Kimberlin, fromThe Virginian-Pilot “The Year the Music Dies” by Charles C. Mann, fromWired “Big Battle for a Silly Old Bear: Who Owns the Honey Pot?” by Meg James, from theLos Angeles Times “The Monopolist” by Connie Bruck, fromThe New Yorker “From Heroes to Goats . . . and Back Ag