The Wal-Mart Effect: How the World's Most Powerful Company Really Works - and How It's Transforming the American Economy

Charles Fishman is an investigative journalist and author. Fishman began his career with The Washington Post, and went on to work as the senior editor at both the Orlando Sentinel and the News Observer. He has also written for Fast Company magazine, which he helped to found. Fishman is the author of 12 books, most notably his 2006 publication The Wal-Mart Effect, his 2011 publication The Big Thirst: The Secret Life and Turbulent Future of Water, his 2015 publication A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life, and his most recent 2019 publication One Giant Leap: The Impossible Mission That Flew Us to the Moon. Fishman was awarded the Gerald Loeb Award three times for his business journalism. The Wal-Mart Effect was named a Book of the Year by The Economist, the Financial Times, and the editors at Amazon.com. The text has established Fishman as a leading voice in corporate investigations and journalism, and established him as an expert on understanding and explaining corporate policies, behaviors, and practices.

Fishman’s trusted and award-winning journalism has taken him everywhere “from the busiest maternity ward in the U.S. to America’s only bomb factory” (“