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.
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>
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《经济学家》杂志说,“没有集装箱,就没有全球化。” 这项貌似普通的发明,到底是如何影响整个产业链,进而推动全球化进程的呢? 一、芭比娃娃的全球供应链 芭比被认为是地地道道的美国女孩儿,但实际上,她从来就不是。 在她诞生的1959年,美泰公司就把她的生产安排在了日本的...
A great book introducing the container history; more importantly, providing an overview of globlization although I wish it contains future perspective.
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
评分三小時的seminar迅速略過整本書,後來發現原來每一章都是講相同事件的不同方麵,而引發討論關於未來與過去的思考、對災難的預測和經濟發展利弊性的思考,仍難以下定論。3.5 (BTW 我的時間綫固化思維太嚴重瞭,提煉概念的能力不足..)
评分很好的常識讀物
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