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The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger

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Originally published
  
March 2006

Genre
  
Non-fiction

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Author
  
Marc Levinson

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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. The New York Times called it "a smart, engaging book".

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

The Box won a bronze medal in the Independent Publisher Book Awards (2007) in the "Finance/Investment/Economics" category. The Box was shortlisted for the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award (2006).

Editions

  • Levinson, Marc (2006). The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger. Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-12324-1. 

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