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Kathryn Judge
Kathryn Judge is the Harvey J. Goldschmid Professor of Law at Columbia Law School and the author of
Direct: The Rise of the Middleman Economy and the Power of Going to the Source
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Adam Maida / The Atlantic
So Much for Cutting Out the Middleman
Instead of getting rid of intermediaries, the internet created entirely new ones.
Kathryn Judge
June 9, 2022