The Middleman Economy

How Brokers, Agents, Dealers, and Everyday Matchmakers Create Value and Profit

Marina Krakovsky (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

229 Seiten

2015 | 2015 ed.
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-137-53019-6 (ISBN)

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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 the six essential roles that middlemen play.

Marina Krakovsky writes about ideas in the social sciences, particularly new research in psychology, sociology, and economics. Her work has appeared in Discover, the New York Times Magazine, Scientific American and Scientific American Mind, O, The Oprah Magazine, Psychology Today, Slate, Stanford Magazine, the Washington Post, Wired, and other publications. She is also co-author, with economist Kay-Yut Chen, of Secrets of the Moneylab: How Behavioral Economics Can Improve Your Business (Portfolio/Penguin, 2010). Marina graduated from Stanford University with a degree in English and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Introduction 1. The Bridge 2. The Certifier 3. The Enforcer 4. The Risk Bearer 5. The Concierge 6. The Insulator Conclusion: The Middleman Economy Acknowledgements

Zusatzinfo	VII, 229 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
ISBN-10	1-137-53019-7 / 1137530197
ISBN-13	978-1-137-53019-6 / 9781137530196
Zustand	Neuware