The Best Business Stories of the Year, 2004 - Softcover

The fourth in a series of annual anthologies presents the year's most noteworthy and influential articles on diverse aspects of the business world, featuring James B. Stewart's "Spend! Spend! Spend! Where Did Tyco's Money Go?" from The New Yorker and "In Defense of the Boom" by Michael Lewis from The New York Times Magazine. Original. 20,000 first printing.

“Spend! Spend! Spend! Where Did Tyco’s Money Go?” by James B. Stewart, from The New Yorker

“The Decline and Fall of the Cult of Equity” by Andrew Hill, from the Financial Times

“The Death of One American Dream” by Shirleen Holt, from The Seattle Times

“Shattered Dynasty” by Suzanna Andrews, from Vanity Fair

“For Richer” by Paul Krugman, from The New York Times Magazine

“In Defense of the Boom” by Michael Lewis, from The New York Times Magazine

“The Telecom Boom’s Dark Remnants” by Michael Guillen, from The Oregonian

“Rich Man, Poor Company” by Chris O’Brien and Jack Davis, from the San Jose Mercury News

“Deciding on Executive Pay: Lack of Independence Seen” by Diana B. Henriques and Geraldine Fabrikant, from The New York Times

“How It All Fell Apart” by Johnnie L. Roberts, from Newsweek

“Planet Starbucks” by Stanley Holmes, Drake Bennett, Kate Carlisle, and Chester Dawson, from BusinessWeek

“The Google Gods” by Stefanie Olsen, from CNET News.com

“Up Against Wal-Mart” by Karen Olsson, from Mother Jones

“Is Our Children Learning?” by Julie Landry, from Red Herring

“The Investigation: How Eliot Spitzer Humbled Wall Street” by John Cassidy, from The New Yorker

“Inside the Rock” by Loch Adamson, from Worth

“Unfair Disclosure” by Bob Drummond, from Bloomberg Markets

“Inside McKinsey” by John A. Byrne, from BusinessWeek

“Alliance Capital’s Bad Bets” by Edward Robinson, from Bloomberg Markets

“Where the Money’s Really Made” by Andy Serwer, from Fortune

“The Economics of Empire” by William Finnegan, from Harper’s Magazine

“The Debt Bomb” by Jonathan R. Laing, from Barron’s

“Big Bucks, Small Town, Bond Haven” by Noelle Haner-Dorr, from Orlando Business Journal

“Flight into the Red” by Steve Huettel, from the St. Petersburg Times

“Full Price: A Young Woman, an Appendectomy, and a $19,000 Debt” by Lucette Lagnado, from The Wall Street Journal

“The Fall of Andersen” by Delroy Alexander, Greg Burns, Robert Manor, Flynn McRoberts and E. A. Torriero, from the Chicago Tribune

“Why Good Accountants Do Bad Audits” by Max H. Bazerman, George Loewenstein and Don A. Moore, from Harvard Business Review

“Troubling Options—Inside the Tough Call at Sprint” by Rebecca Blumenstein and Carol Hymowitz, from The Wall Street Journal

“Wild, Wild Qwest” by Lou Kilzer, David Milstead, and Jeff Smith, from the Rocky Mountain News

“The New Face of Shoplifting” by Joanne Kimberlin, from The Virginian-Pilot

“The Year the Music Dies” by Charles C. Mann, from Wired

“Big Battle for a Silly Old Bear: Who Owns the Honey Pot?” by Meg James, from the Los Angeles Times

“The Monopolist” by Connie Bruck, from The New Yorker

“From Heroes to Goats . . . and Back Again?” by Jerry Useem, from Fortune

“A Virtuous Cycle” by James Surowiecki, from Forbes