The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
A book about the history of the shipping container? At first, one has to wonder why. (An eventuality not lost on the author, who muses “What is it about the container that is so important? Surely not the thing itself…the standard container has all the romance of a tin can.”) The catch, though, is that Levinson, an economist, “treats containerization not as shipping news, but … [ Read more ]
Content: Book | Author: Marc Levinson | Subjects: Economics, History