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One of Foreign Policy's "Most Anticipated Books of 2024"Part Michael Lewis, part The Way Things Work: From the New York Times's Global Economics Correspondent, an extraordinary journey revealing the worldwide supply chain - exposing both the fascinating pathways of manufacturing and transportation that bring products to your doorstep, and the ruthless business logic that has left local communities at the mercy of a complex and fragile network for their basic necessities.How does the wealthiest country on earth run out of protective gear in the middle of a public health catastrophe? How do its parents find themselves unable to locate crucially needed infant formula? How do its largest companies spend billions of dollars making cars that no one can drive for a lack of chips?The last few years have radically highlighted the intricacy and fragility of the global supply chain.
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Peter S. Goodman is the executive business editor of the Huffington Post Media Group. He was previously the national economic correspondent for The New York Times, a role in which he was among the earliest experts to warn that the nation was headed for a precipitous economic downturn. His coverage of the orgins of the financial crisis of 2008 was part of "The Reckoning," a Times' series that garnered a Gerald Loeb award--the so-called Pulitzer of business and economic reporting.Goodman previously spent a decade at the Washington Post--as the newspaper's Shanghai-based Asian economic correspondent from 2001 through 2006; before that covering the technology bubble as the the telecommunications writer. He began his career as a freelancer in Southeast Asia, where he chronicled the civil war in Cambodia, the emergence of market-embracing reforms in Vietnam, and the struggle for independence in East Timor.Goodman is a graduate of Reed College, where he majored in political science, and the University of California at Berkeley, where he gained an M.A. in Vietnamese history.He lives in Brooklyn.
