The Box (Levinson book) explained
The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger is a non-fiction book by Marc Levinson charting the historic rise of the intermodal container (shipping container) and how it changed the economic landscape of the global economy.[1] [2] The New York Times called it "a smart, engaging book".[3]
The book inspired the name for the project "The Box" run by BBC News from September 2008 onwards, in which the BBC were tracking a container for a period of one year.[4]
The Box won a bronze medal in the Independent Publisher Book Awards (2007) in the "Finance/Investment/Economics" category.[5] It also won the 2007 Anderson Medal from the Society for Nautical Research.[6] The Box was shortlisted for the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award (2006).[7]
Editions
The 2nd edition has an extra chapter.
Chapters
- The World the Box Made
- Gridlock on the Docks
- The Trucker
- The System
- The Battle for New York's Post
- Union Disunion
- Setting the Standard
- Takeoff
- Vietnam
- Ports in a Storm
- Boom and Bust
- The Bigness Complex
- The Shipper's Revenge
- Just in Time – Barbie is an example
- Adding Value
See also
Bibliography
- Outside the Box – How Globalization Changed From Moving Stuff To Spreading Ideas. Front cover of book states author is Marc Levinson;
Notes and References
- Web site: Thinking outside the box . Howard . Davies . 2006-04-01 . Times Online.
- News: Globalization 1.0 . Nora . Krug . 2008-04-13 . Washington Post.
- News: A Revolution That Came In a Box . Joe . Nocera . The New York Times . 2006-05-13 . 2009-01-24.
- Web site: The Box takes off on global journey . Jeremy . Hillman . . 2008-09-08.
- Web site: Announcing 2007 Independent Publisher Book Awards Results . Independent Publisher Book Awards . 2007 . July 20, 2013.
- Web site: Awards . Society for Nautical Research.
- Web site: Award shortlist announced 2006 . Financial Times . 18 September 2006 . 30 May 2012.
