The Best Business Writing 2012 / Edited by Dean Starkman, Martha Hamilton, Ryan Chittum and Felix Salmon.

Bad business. The dark lord of coal country / Jeff Goodell ; Missing Milly Dowler's voicemail was hacked by News of the World / Nick Davies and Amelia Hill ; Phone-hacking crisis shows News Corp is no ordinary news company / Jay Rosen ; The bugger, bugged / Hugh Grant ; A case of shattered trust / Raquel Rutledge and Rick Barrett -- The financial system and its discontents. The "subsidy": how a handful of Merrill Lynch bankers helped blow up their own firm / Jake Bernstein and Jesse Eisinger ; Countrywide protected fraudsters by silencing whistleblowers, say former employees / Michael Hudson ; Curse the geniuses who gave us Bank of America / Jonathan Weil ; Is the SEC covering up Wall Street crimes? / Matt Taibbi ; In financial crisis, no prosecutions of top figures / Gretchen Morgenson and Louise Story -- Over there. Time for Germany to make its fateful choice / Martin Wolf ; In Norway, start-ups say ja to socialism / Max Chafkin -- Politics and money. Swiped: banks, merchants, and why Washington doesn't work for you / Zach Carter and Ryan Grim ; Stop coddling the super-rich / Warren Buffett ; Blame for the financial mess starts with the corporate lobby / Steven Pearlstein ; Nine things the rich don't want you to know about taxes / David Cay Johnston ; The hijacked crisis / Paul Krugman ; Greenspan, Rubin, and a roomful of hypocrites / Morgan Housel -- The big picture. The rise of the new global elite / Chrystia Freeland ; Can the world still feed itself? / Brian M. Carney ; Law school economics: ka-ching! / David Segal ; When patents attack! / Alex Blumberg and Laura Sydell ; The illusions of psychiatry / Marcia Angell ; From Inside job / Charles Ferguson, Adam Bolt, and Chad Beck -- Corporate stories. Inside Pfizer's palace coup / Peter Elkind and Jennifer Reingold, with Doris Burke ; It knows / Daniel Soar ; Innovators don't ignore customers / John Gapper ; House perfect / Lauren Collins ; Voting to hire a chief without meeting him / James B. Stewart ; How Ford became last man standing / Bernie Woodall and Kevin Krolicki ; What made Steve Jobs so great? / Cliff Kuang.

Collects several investigative reports on the business world, including the investigation into News of the World, an account of the consequences of the deregulation of medicine, and the legacy of Alan Greenspan.