图书标签: 经济 集装箱 物流 经济学 历史 美国 商业 英文原著
发表于2024-11-07
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In April 1956, a refitted oil tanker carried fifty-eight shipping containers from Newark to Houston. From that modest beginning, container shipping developed into a huge industry that made the boom in global trade possible. The Box tells the dramatic story of the container's creation, the decade of struggle before it was widely adopted, and the sweeping economic consequences of the sharp fall in transportation costs that containerization brought about.</p>
Published on the fiftieth anniversary of the first container voyage, this is the first comprehensive history of the shipping container. It recounts how the drive and imagination of an iconoclastic entrepreneur, Malcom McLean, turned containerization from an impractical idea into a massive industry that slashed the cost of transporting goods around the world.</p>
But the container didn't just happen. 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. It required years of high-stakes bargaining with two of the titans of organized labor, Harry Bridges and Teddy Gleason, as well as delicate negotiations on standards that made it possible for almost any container to travel on any truck or train or ship. Ultimately, it took McLean's success in supplying U.S. forces in Vietnam to persuade the world of the container's potential.</p>
Drawing on previously neglected sources, economist Marc Levinson shows how the container transformed economic geography, devastating traditional ports such as New York and London and fueling the growth of previously obscure ones, such as Oakland. 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.</p>
Marc Levinson is an economist and historian specializing in business and finance. He was formerly finance and economics editor of The Economist, worked as an economist at a New York bank, and served as senior fellow for international business at the Council on Foreign Relations. For more information, check out his website at www.marclevinson.net.
我要找malcolm maclean的传记来看。码头工会虽然百般阻挠,但是完全挡不住技术创新(当然你也可以说是创新的资本家为降低成本用尽一些办法)前进的脚步啊!想到1453年,穆罕默德靠着船坚炮利进攻君士坦丁堡兵临城下,城里的居民和守卫在干啥呢?跪在地上祈祷啊……咳咳扯远了,商业故事真的会削弱俺对于资本以外的力量所剩无几的信心啊~_~
评分bill gates推荐的七本书之一
评分201404,Its a history book. Yes, HISTORY!!!
评分很好的常识读物
评分读到集装箱刚开始被推广的时候,受到了码头和搬运工工会的阻挠,想起来这两年大家对人工智能的担忧,颇为相似
有很多在今天看起来非常普通的发明,其实曾对全人类的进步作出了巨大的贡献,或者是改变了我们的生活方式;集装箱就是一种这样的发明。在这本书中,我们将看到这个其貌不扬的铁柜子怎样影响了经济,怎样促进了贸易,怎样缩短了世界的距离;我们还将看到,面对一项技术革命的到...
评分预计叫《集装箱改变世界》,书翻译的不错,写的当然更不错。 敬请留意吧。 《金融时报》与高盛2006年度最佳图书入围作品 “没有集装箱,不可能有全球化。”——《经济学家》 集装箱有什么重要的地方吗? 一个冷冰冰的铝制或钢制大箱子,上面有很多的焊缝和铆钉,底部铺着木板...
评分在作者笔下,集装箱的发展史,就是通过市场竞争来建立高效率的跨州跨洋运输体系标准,并与各类垄断势力相抗争的历史 ------ 无论这种垄断来自码头工会,还是政府限制与资助,或者价格卡特尔。这个视角还是十分新颖的。 从注解看,作者参考了许多档案资料,有根有据,文字可读...
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