Marc Levinson: The Box | Taschenbuch

Cover: 9780691170817 | The Box | Marc Levinson | Taschenbuch | Einband - flex.(Paperback)

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Beschreibung

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. 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.

Über den Autor

Marc Levinson is an economist in Washington, DC. He was formerly a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, an economist at a leading investment bank, and finance and economics editor at The Economist.

Erscheinungsjahr:	2016
Fachbereich:	Einzelne Wirtschaftszweige
Genre:	Importe , Wirtschaft
Rubrik:	Recht & Wirtschaft
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13:	9780691170817
ISBN-10:	0691170819
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Levinson, Marc
Auflage:	2nd edition with a New Chapter
Hersteller:	Princeton Univers. Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Abbildungen:	2
Maße:	203 x 134 x 40 mm
Von/Mit:	Marc Levinson
Erscheinungsdatum:	14.04.2016
Gewicht:	0,512 kg