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>
马克麦克莱恩首先创建的是自己家族掌管的卡车运输公司。在经营卡车公司时,麦克莱恩便通过多种方式试图绕开政府机构对价格的管控,并提供具有竞争力的运输价格。 卡车运输的发展使得高速公路的交通拥堵情况日益严重,从而降低了卡车运输的效率。为了突破陆基运输的基础设施瓶...
評分在作者笔下,集装箱的发展史,就是通过市场竞争来建立高效率的跨州跨洋运输体系标准,并与各类垄断势力相抗争的历史 ------ 无论这种垄断来自码头工会,还是政府限制与资助,或者价格卡特尔。这个视角还是十分新颖的。 从注解看,作者参考了许多档案资料,有根有据,文字可读...
評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...
評分与其用中文标题,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,...
評分《经济学家》杂志说,“没有集装箱,就没有全球化。” 这项貌似普通的发明,到底是如何影响整个产业链,进而推动全球化进程的呢? 一、芭比娃娃的全球供应链 芭比被认为是地地道道的美国女孩儿,但实际上,她从来就不是。 在她诞生的1959年,美泰公司就把她的生产安排在了日本的...
三小時的seminar迅速略過整本書,後來發現原來每一章都是講相同事件的不同方麵,而引發討論關於未來與過去的思考、對災難的預測和經濟發展利弊性的思考,仍難以下定論。3.5 (BTW 我的時間綫固化思維太嚴重瞭,提煉概念的能力不足..)
评分很好的常識讀物
评分a history of containers we should never overlook
评分201404,Its a history book. Yes, HISTORY!!!
评分#.....反正商院藏書裏的默認前提們都挺獵奇的..當然集裝箱的點是蠻有意思的
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