The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger, Second Edition with a new chapter by the author
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.62 (700 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0691170819 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 544 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-03-20 |
| Language | : | English |
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Pretty fascinating Found this book as a reference in Kaplan's book "Asia's Cauldron". With all the talk and analysis of the current situation in the south China sea, it is helpful to study international trade to get a better understanding of just what is at stake. This book provides a good starting point to understand the history of the container that brought about the increased velocity of international trade, and how certain ports became hubs for billions of dollars in commerce.. Video Killed the Radio Star and the shipping container knocked down these: Longshoremen Truckers Maritime cartels Military bureaucracy and supply chain Unionized first-world factory workers Traditional (or historical) portsIn fact, if you are living in a city that was heavily unionized in 1950, and you are looking around and wondering, "What happened?" this may answer the question."The Box" is HARDLY a glowing commentary on union responses to innovation and productivity enhancements. Nor does it reflect well on the ICC or the . Global supply chains explained It's hard to dispute that containerization has dramatically altered the rules of the game: global supply chains, logistics, and outsourcing are all direct consequences of the massive trade flows enabled by modern containerships. Marc Levinson's account of this industry is an interesting mix of politics and history. A good section of the book is dedicated to labor disputes, and the general resistance of the dock workers and US unions to mechanization. In retrospect, they were worried for the right rea
. He was formerly a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, an economist at a leading investment bank, and finance and economics editor at The Economist. Marc Levinson is an economist in Washington, DC
forces in Vietnam to persuade the world of the container's potential. Its adoption required huge sums of money, both from private investors and from ports that aspired to be on the leading edge of a new technology. Ultimately, it took McLean's success in supplying U.S. By making shipping so cheap that industry could locate factories far from its customers, the container paved the way for Asia to become the world's workshop and brought consumers a previously unimaginable variety of low-cost products from around the globe. Now with a new chapter, The Box tells the dramatic story of how the drive and imagination of an iconoclastic entrepreneur turned containerization from an impractical idea into a phenomenon that transformed economic geography, slashed transportation costs, and made the boom in global trade possible.. The Box tells the dramatic story of the conta
It describes not just the amazing course of the container-ship phenomenon but the turmoil of human affairs in its wake."--Bob Simmons, The Seattle Times See full review bit/Box-ST-Simmons"Author and economist Marc Levinson recounts the little-known story of how the humble shipping container has revolutionized world commerce. Levinson's elegant weave of transportation economics, innovation, and geography is economic history at its accessible best."--David K. Marc Levinson turns it into a fascinating econ