The Box

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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
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页数:400
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出版时间:2006-03-20
价格:USD 24.95
装帧:Hardcover
isbn号码:9780691123240
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  • 经济 
  • 集装箱 
  • 物流 
  • 经济学 
  • 历史 
  • 美国 
  • 商业 
  • 英文原著 
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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>

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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~_~

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