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Bethany McLean’s Weekend Reading List: Economists, Corporate Giveaways, and Elon Musk

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Elon Musk. Photo by Thomas Hawk, via Flickr [CC BY-NC 2.0]

Corruption, lobbyingcorporate malfeasance, and frauds: a weekly unconventional selection of must-read articles by investigative journalist Bethany McLean.


There’s been a lot of discussion of Milton Friedman’s shareholder-centric edict, 50 years after the fact. But a forgotten corollary is the economic framework that encouraged an explosion of debt. To whose benefit? H/T @ritholtz

The modern-day mirage: A giant corporate giveaway that is supposed to create thousands of jobs.  

I just wish this were only a Republican party issue. But you’d write a similar piece about Governor Cuomo, Elon Musk, and the Solar City plant in Buffalo, NY. Oh! I did

“She was the greatest, brainiest, most convincing and comical confidence woman France ever produced.” An oldie but oh-so-goodie.

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Bethany McLean is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair, a columnist for Yahoo Finance, and a contributor to CNBC. Her 2001 Fortune piece, “Is Enron Overpriced?,” was one of the first skeptical articles about the company. After Enron collapsed into bankruptcy, she co-authored (with Peter Elkind) The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron. A documentary based on the book was nominated for an Academy Award in 2006. She is also the author of All the Devils Are Here (with Joe Nocera), Shaky Ground, and Saudi America. Along with Luigi Zingales, she co-hosts the Podcast Capitalisn't.

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