This report on globalization in the trenches is itself a product of the very same processes it studies. The value chain is as follows:

1. The manuscript was acquired by Roger Scholl, editorial director of, which is an imprint Currency Doubleday, an imprint within an American division of Random House, located in New York City, and owned by Bertelsmann, whose headquarters are in Guetersloh, Germany.
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2. Sarah Rainone of Currency Doubleday edited the manuscript in the early stages.
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3. Chris Fortunato of Fortunato Book Packaging (Pearl River, New York) was contracted to coordinate the final design, copyediting, typesetting, proofreading, and indexing.
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4. Tina Henderson of Metairie, Louisiana served as designer and compositor of the book.
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5. Peter Grennen of Bow, New Hampshire copyedited the book.
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6. Charlee Trantino of Harvey’s Lake, Pennsylvania created the index.
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7. The text was printed and bound by Berryville Graphics in Berryville, Virginia.
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8. The book’s jacket was designed by Michael Windsor of Doubleday, and printed by Coral Graphics of Hicksville, New York.
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9. Prior to the book’s delivery to stores throughout the United States, it will be stored in the Random House Warehouse in Westminster, Maryland.

But I cannot tell how you got the book. Let me know so that we can reconstruct the last link in the value chain that stretched from the glimmer in the mind of MIT researchers into your hands.