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If you’re a PowerSeller on eBay, or a real-estate agent<br />showing houses to your client, or a sales rep in any field<br />(as more than two million Americans are), you’re not<br />just pushing products. If you’re worth your salt, you’re<br />a Certifier, staking your reputation on the quality of the<br />goods you represent. Far from killing the middleman, the<br />Internet has generated a thriving new breed. Between<br />1999 and 2010, just as the Internet was transforming the<br />world, middlemen’s contribution to the United States’<br />GDP has actually grown—from a quarter to more than a<br />third of our economy. In The Middleman Economy, Silicon<br />Valley-based reporter Marina Krakovsky elucidates the<br />six essential roles that middlemen play.<br /><br />“Like many people, you may be a middleman without even realizing it. Marina Krakovsky explains how the best make themselves indispensable: as a merchant of information, she has gone far and wide to bring you the goods.”