The Box

The Box pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載2025

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.

出版者:Princeton University Press
作者:Marc Levinson
出品人:
頁數:400
译者:
出版時間:2006-03-20
價格:USD 24.95
裝幀:Hardcover
isbn號碼:9780691123240
叢書系列:
圖書標籤:
  • 經濟 
  • 集裝箱 
  • 物流 
  • 經濟學 
  • 曆史 
  • 美國 
  • 商業 
  • 英文原著 
  •  
想要找書就要到 小美書屋
立刻按 ctrl+D收藏本頁
你會得到大驚喜!!

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>

具體描述

讀後感

評分

集装箱在我这外行看来,本来就如此。本书则详细考证其发展历程。可惜的是有一些资料随着纽约港务局在911中被毁而消失了。 五六十年代的美国,运输业创新者麦克莱恩想到了集装箱运货的主意(他不是第一人),但是他要面对的阻止生产力提高的三大因素:政府的管制、行业协会的垄...  

評分

马克麦克莱恩首先创建的是自己家族掌管的卡车运输公司。在经营卡车公司时,麦克莱恩便通过多种方式试图绕开政府机构对价格的管控,并提供具有竞争力的运输价格。 卡车运输的发展使得高速公路的交通拥堵情况日益严重,从而降低了卡车运输的效率。为了突破陆基运输的基础设施瓶...  

評分

马克麦克莱恩首先创建的是自己家族掌管的卡车运输公司。在经营卡车公司时,麦克莱恩便通过多种方式试图绕开政府机构对价格的管控,并提供具有竞争力的运输价格。 卡车运输的发展使得高速公路的交通拥堵情况日益严重,从而降低了卡车运输的效率。为了突破陆基运输的基础设施瓶...  

評分

1.如果你想要了解:为什么体力工人会排斥文明,相反,他们(码头工人)更珍惜“好喝酒、好打架”的名声。这本书,会给出一定的原因与现象描述——这说明:“粗人”现象是全球化的,而非中国特有的。 2.如果你读《第五项修炼》读不太明白,那么,先读这一本,而后,想想,为什...  

評分

这本书进入我的视线范围是因为它出现在了Bill Gates书单里,然后又作为贸易出身的人,觉得有阅读一下的必要。 这本书说了什么? 是贸易全球化?海运发展?运输成本的降低?还是集装箱对制造业的影响? 这些问题在我读这本书之前都在脑中掠过。 而这本书完全没有针对以上任何一...  

用戶評價

评分

a history of containers we should never overlook

评分

#.....反正商院藏書裏的默認前提們都挺獵奇的..當然集裝箱的點是蠻有意思的

评分

#.....反正商院藏書裏的默認前提們都挺獵奇的..當然集裝箱的點是蠻有意思的

评分

應景。

评分

我要找malcolm maclean的傳記來看。碼頭工會雖然百般阻撓,但是完全擋不住技術創新(當然你也可以說是創新的資本傢為降低成本用盡一些辦法)前進的腳步啊!想到1453年,穆罕默德靠著船堅炮利進攻君士坦丁堡兵臨城下,城裏的居民和守衛在乾啥呢?跪在地上祈禱啊……咳咳扯遠瞭,商業故事真的會削弱俺對於資本以外的力量所剩無幾的信心啊~_~

本站所有內容均為互聯網搜索引擎提供的公開搜索信息,本站不存儲任何數據與內容,任何內容與數據均與本站無關,如有需要請聯繫相關搜索引擎包括但不限於百度google,bing,sogou

© 2025 book.quotespace.org All Rights Reserved. 小美書屋 版权所有