Showing readers how they can become more valuable players in any industry, this book puts middlemen in a whole new light, arguing that middlemen provide value by playing some combination of six roles, with each role solving a problem that, without the middleman, would inhibit mu…
With the rise of the Internet, many pundits predicted that middlemen would disappear. But that hasn't happened. Far from killing the middleman, the Internet has generated a thriving new breed. In The Middleman Economy, Silicon Valley-based reporter Marina Krakovsky elucidates th…
Showing readers how they can become more valuable players in any industry, this book puts middlemen in a whole new light, arguing that middlemen provide value by playing some combination of six roles, with each role solving a problem that, without the middleman, would inhibit mu…
Drew Rosenhaus, the most powerful agent in the NFL, infuriates team owners but manages to give clients what they want. In his own not-so-humble opinion, the NFL would fall apart without him. LaJuan Stoxstill-Diggs, an appliance flipper on Craigslist, jumps on opportunities to bu…
Two journalists expose one of the least scrutinized corners of the world economy: the workings of the billionaire commodity traders who buy, hoard and sell the earth's resources. It is the story of how a handful of swashbuckling businessmen became indispensable cogs in global ma…
