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>
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评分第一次听说这个书,是年初看到有新闻列出了盖茨去年的读书清单,其中有本讲集装箱的书。当时还觉得奇怪,盖茨为什么要读这本书。 后来在多看,发现这本书正好限免,下来一看。 先说翻译质量,还是可以的。可能由于原作本身的原因,书读起来比较平淡,大量细节比较琐碎。 不...
评分此书描述了集装箱改变了航运业的整个历程:包括集装箱出现前,整个航运业的现状:货物散乱,运输不便,码头割据,工人混乱,政府管控垄断定价,货物运输各种弊端。随着技术进步,马克莱恩作为集装箱航运的一个最重要推动者,从轮船、集装箱、卡车、铁路、码头等各方面硬件上如...
评分今天我们生活在一个全球化的世界。我们身边的许多产品,都是由全世界各地飘洋过海而来。就拿iphone来说,它的设计与研发在美国总部完成,而iphone处理器是由三星在韩国制造的,屏幕则来自日本,还有许许多多小零件,像是来自法国的陀螺仪传感器,来自荷兰的NFC通讯模块。这些创...
一章一章慢慢读完的,读起来觉得很有意思,但也说不清楚是什么,至少我知道,现在再在路上看到集中箱,我心里再也不会只把那想成一个大箱子了。。。
评分我要找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~_~
评分我要找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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