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>
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The Box 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載
在作者筆下,集裝箱的發展史,就是通過市場競爭來建立高效率的跨州跨洋運輸體係標準,並與各類壟斷勢力相抗爭的曆史 ------ 無論這種壟斷來自碼頭工會,還是政府限製與資助,或者價格卡特爾。這個視角還是十分新穎的。 從注解看,作者參考瞭許多檔案資料,有根有據,文字可讀...
評分馬剋麥剋萊恩首先創建的是自己傢族掌管的卡車運輸公司。在經營卡車公司時,麥剋萊恩便通過多種方式試圖繞開政府機構對價格的管控,並提供具有競爭力的運輸價格。 卡車運輸的發展使得高速公路的交通擁堵情況日益嚴重,從而降低瞭卡車運輸的效率。為瞭突破陸基運輸的基礎設施瓶...
評分馬剋麥剋萊恩首先創建的是自己傢族掌管的卡車運輸公司。在經營卡車公司時,麥剋萊恩便通過多種方式試圖繞開政府機構對價格的管控,並提供具有競爭力的運輸價格。 卡車運輸的發展使得高速公路的交通擁堵情況日益嚴重,從而降低瞭卡車運輸的效率。為瞭突破陸基運輸的基礎設施瓶...
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我要找malcolm maclean的傳記來看。碼頭工會雖然百般阻撓,但是完全擋不住技術創新(當然你也可以說是創新的資本傢為降低成本用盡一些辦法)前進的腳步啊!想到1453年,穆罕默德靠著船堅炮利進攻君士坦丁堡兵臨城下,城裏的居民和守衛在乾啥呢?跪在地上祈禱啊……咳咳扯遠瞭,商業故事真的會削弱俺對於資本以外的力量所剩無幾的信心啊~_~
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評分201404,Its a history book. Yes, HISTORY!!!
評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
評分Watched video. Interesting, good to know information.
The Box 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載