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>
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...
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201404,Its a history book. Yes, HISTORY!!!
评分讀到集裝箱剛開始被推廣的時候,受到瞭碼頭和搬運工工會的阻撓,想起來這兩年大傢對人工智能的擔憂,頗為相似
评分課程的閱讀材料 完整看完的第一本英文書 感覺作者的角度很獨特 給人很多從沒想到過的啓發 集裝箱確實改變瞭整個世界
评分201404,Its a history book. Yes, HISTORY!!!
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