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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. Winner of the 2007 Bronze Medal in Finance/Investment/Economics, Independent Publisher Book Awards. Shortlisted for the 2006 Financial Times /Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year. Honorable Mention for the 2006 John Lyman Book Award, Science and Technology category, North American Society for Ocean History. One of Financial Times (FT.com) Best Business Books of 2013 (chosen by guest critic Bill Gates, Chairman of Microsoft). "One of the most significant, yet least noticed, economic developments of the last few decades [was] the transformation of international shipping. The idea of containerization was simple: to move trailer-size loads of goods seamlessly among trucks, trains and ships, without breaking bulk. Along the way, even the most foresighted people made mistakes and lost millions. --Virginia Postrel, The New York Times [See full review http://bit.do/Box-NYT-Postrel]. "Like much of today's international cargo, Marc Levinson's The Box arrives 'just in time.'. It is a tribute to the box itself that far-off places matter so much to us now: It has eased trade, sped up delivery, lowered prices and widened the offering of goods everywhere. "By artfully weaving together the nuts and bolts of what happened at which port with the grand sweep of economic history, Levinson has produced a marvelous read for anyone who cares about how the interconnected world economy came to be." [I]t shows vividly how resistance to technological change caused shipping movements to migrate away from the Hudson river to other East Coast ports." illustrates clearly how great risks are taken by entrepreneurs when entrenched interests and government regulators conspire against them. Even after these opponents are dispatched, technological and economic uncertainty plague the entrepreneur just as much as the vaunted 'first-mover advantage' blesses him, perhaps more. owes its exponential growth to something utterly ordinary and overlooked, says author Marc Levinson: the metal shipping container.... spins yarns of the men who fought to retain the old On the Waterfront ways and of those who made the box ubiquitous."

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. Honorable Mention for the 2006 John Lyman Book Award, Science and Technology category, North American Society for Ocean History. One of Financial Times (FT.com) Best Business Books of 2013 (chosen by guest critic Bill Gates, Chairman of Microsoft). "One of the most significant, yet least noticed, economic developments of the last few decades [was] the transformation of international shipping. The idea of containerization was simple: to move trailer-size loads of goods seamlessly among trucks, trains and ships, without breaking bulk. "Like much of today's international cargo, Marc Levinson's The Box arrives 'just in time.'. It is a tribute to the box itself that far-off places matter so much to us now: It has eased trade, sped up delivery, lowered prices and widened the offering of goods everywhere. "By artfully weaving together the nuts and bolts of what happened at which port with the grand sweep of economic history, Levinson has produced a marvelous read for anyone who cares about how the interconnected world economy came to be." [I]t shows vividly how resistance to technological change caused shipping movements to migrate away from the Hudson river to other East Coast ports." illustrates clearly how great risks are taken by entrepreneurs when entrenched interests and government regulators conspire against them. Even after these opponents are dispatched, technological and economic uncertainty plague the entrepreneur just as much as the vaunted 'first-mover advantage' blesses him, perhaps more. owes its exponential growth to something utterly ordinary and overlooked, says author Marc Levinson: the metal shipping container.... spins yarns of the men who fought to retain the old On the Waterfront ways and of those who made the box ubiquitous." "The continuous decline of ocean shipping costs in the last 40 years is rarely credited for the growth of global trade in contemporary literature. --George Stalk, Boston Consulting Group and author of Surviving the China Riptide. Marc Levinson's sparkling and authoritative story is great fun to read, but it is spectacular economic history as well." --Nelson Lichtenstein, University of California, Santa Barbara, and editor of Wal-Mart: the Face of Twenty-First Century Capitalism. "The adoption of the modern shipping container may be a close second to the Internet in the way it has changed our lives. It has dramatically cut the cost of transportation and thereby made outsourcing a significant issue. This book, very nicely written, makes a fascinating set of true stories of an apparently mundane subject, and dramatically illustrates how simple innovations can transform our lives." --William Baumol, Director, Berkley Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, author of The Free-Market Innovation Machine. "In the second half of the twentieth century, an innovation came along that would transform the way the world did business. But in subtle ways The Box also challenges commonly held views about business and the role of innovation."

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