--- title: Kathryn Judge | TIME description: 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 (Harper Business) canonical: https://time.com/author/kathryn-judge/ og:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates og:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:url: https://time.com/author/kathryn-judge/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 300 og:image:height: 300 og:image:alt: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:type: profile twitter:card: summary twitter:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates twitter:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Kathryn Judge ## Kathryn Judge 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_](https://kathrynjudge.com/books/direct) (Harper Business) ## Kathryn Judge *  Aug 23, 2022 ### [How the Middleman Economy Makes Everything More Expensive](https://time.com/6207701/us-economy-middlemen-prices/) The U.S. today is dominated by middlemen, like Cargill or Walmart, that are distorting the economy a... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/kathryn-judge/","name":"Kathryn Judge"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/kathryn-judge/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/kathryn-judge/"},"name":"Kathryn Judge","jobTitle":null,"description":"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 (Harper Business)","url":"https://time.com/author/kathryn-judge/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```