Download or read book The Middleman Economy written by Marina Krakovsky and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.