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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頁數:400
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出版時間:2006-03-20
價格:USD 24.95
裝幀:Hardcover
isbn號碼:9780691123240
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  • 經濟 
  • 集裝箱 
  • 物流 
  • 經濟學 
  • 曆史 
  • 美國 
  • 商業 
  • 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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有很多在今天看起来非常普通的发明,其实曾对全人类的进步作出了巨大的贡献,或者是改变了我们的生活方式;集装箱就是一种这样的发明。在这本书中,我们将看到这个其貌不扬的铁柜子怎样影响了经济,怎样促进了贸易,怎样缩短了世界的距离;我们还将看到,面对一项技术革命的到...

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与其用中文标题,我倒觉得直接用英文的来的好点,而且本书说的最多的就是美国港口的屈辱斗争史,任何一个新技术的应用,必然带来老的一代的退出,然后你就看着新老交集的撕咬,这在哪都有,不一定只是美国。 书还不错,可以当着标准化的书籍学习下,尤其是做平台的兄弟姐妹们,...  

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1.如果你想要了解:为什么体力工人会排斥文明,相反,他们(码头工人)更珍惜“好喝酒、好打架”的名声。这本书,会给出一定的原因与现象描述——这说明:“粗人”现象是全球化的,而非中国特有的。 2.如果你读《第五项修炼》读不太明白,那么,先读这一本,而后,想想,为什...  

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201404,Its a history book. Yes, HISTORY!!!

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A great book introducing the container history; more importantly, providing an overview of globlization although I wish it contains future perspective.

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A great book introducing the container history; more importantly, providing an overview of globlization although I wish it contains future perspective.

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201404,Its a history book. Yes, HISTORY!!!

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很好的常識讀物

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