New Book Talk: How The World Ran Out of Everything

Author Pete Goodman goes inside our world's fragile global supply chain to discover its inner workings and why its reform is so crucial
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Book Talk Event & Reception

New Book! How the World Ran out of Everything

Introduction: Lili Zheng, partner, Deloitte
Book Talk: Peter Goodman, Author & NY Times journalist
Chat: with Rebecca Fannin, author & journalist, Silcon Dragon Global/ CNBC
Audience Q&A
Networking Reception

Editorial Review

"Recent years have exposed the precarity of global supply chains. In his new book, Peter S. Goodman, the New York Times’s global economics correspondent, takes readers inside this system, analyzes the factors that made it so fragile, and argues that it is overdue for reform." Foreign Policy, "The Most Anticipated Books of 2024"

About the Author

Peter S. Goodman is an award-winning journalist and the Global Economics Correspondent for the New York Times. He was previously the NYT’s European economics correspondent, based in London, and the national economics correspondent, based in New York, where he played a leading role in the paper’s award-winning coverage of the Great Recession, including a series that was a Pulitzer finalist. Previously, he covered the Internet bubble and bust as the Washington Post’s telecommunications reporter, and served as WashPo’s China-based Asian economics correspondent. He is the author of Davos Man and Past Due: The End of Easy Money and the Renewal of the American Economy. He graduated from Reed College and completed a master’s in Vietnamese history from the University of California, Berkeley.

Bio: Rebecca A. Fannin, host

Rebecca is a CNBC contributor, author, and a media founder. Her forward-looking books - Silicon Heartland, Silicon Dragon, Startup Asia, and Tech Titans of China - have been translated in 10 languages and favorably reviewed and cited by the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, The New York Times and Time. A public speaker and commentator, she’s spoken at Brookings, Harvard and Oxford, among others, and appeared on CNBC, BBC, CNN, and Bloomberg.
Currently a contributor to CNBC and its Disruptor 50 report, she also leads Silicon Dragon Ventures, covering innovation and startup investment with her Ask A VC show, newsletter and events in leading hubs. She was a Forbes columnist for 10 years and has written for Harvard Business Review, CEO and Worth, profiling many global business leaders, including Jack Ma of Alibaba. She also has contributed to several thought leadership reports on innovation trends.
During the dotcom boom, as an international editor at Red Herring in San Francisco, she followed the venture capital trail from Silicon Valley to Asia's emerging markets and became one of the first American journalists covering China’s entrepreneurial boom, and later East Asia and India.

Our thanks to Deloitte for supporting this event.