The Box (Levinson book)

The Box
AuthorMarc Levinson
LanguageEnglish
GenreNon-fiction
PublisherPrinceton University Press
Publication date
2006
Publication placeUnited States
ISBN0-691-12324-1

The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger is a non-fiction book by Marc Levinson charting the historic rise of the intermodal container (shipping container) and how it changed the economic landscape of the global economy.[1][2] The New York Times called it "a smart, engaging book".[3]

The book inspired the name for the project "The Box" run by BBC News from September 2008 onwards, in which the BBC were tracking a container for a period of one year.[4]

The Box won a bronze medal in the Independent Publisher Book Awards (2007) in the "Finance/Investment/Economics" category.[5] It also won the 2007 Anderson Medal from the Society for Nautical Research.[6] The Box was shortlisted for the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award (2006).[7]

Editions

  • Levinson, Marc (2016). The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger (2nd ed.). Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-17081-7.

The 2nd edition has an extra chapter.

Chapters

  1. The World the Box Made
  2. Gridlock on the Docks
  3. The Trucker
  4. The System
  5. The Battle for New York's Post
  6. Union Disunion
  7. Setting the Standard
  8. Takeoff
  9. Vietnam
  10. Ports in a Storm
  11. Boom and Bust
  12. The Bigness Complex
  13. The Shipper's Revenge
  14. Just in Time – Barbie is an example
  15. Adding Value

See also

Bibliography

  • Outside the Box – How Globalization Changed From Moving Stuff To Spreading Ideas. Front cover of book states author is Marc Levinson;[citation needed]

References

  1. ^ Davies, Howard (2006-04-01). "Thinking outside the box". Times Online.[dead link‍]
  2. ^ Krug, Nora (2008-04-13). "Globalization 1.0". Washington Post.
  3. ^ Nocera, Joe (2006-05-13). "A Revolution That Came In a Box". The New York Times. Retrieved 2009-01-24.
  4. ^ Hillman, Jeremy (2008-09-08). "The Box takes off on global journey". BBC News.
  5. ^ "Announcing 2007 Independent Publisher Book Awards Results". Independent Publisher Book Awards. 2007. Retrieved July 20, 2013.
  6. ^ "Awards". Society for Nautical Research.
  7. ^ "Award shortlist announced 2006". Financial Times. 18 September 2006. Retrieved 30 May 2012.