How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger [audio 10min @17:00]

Laurie Taylor is joined by economist Marc Levinson, author of The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger (Princeton University Press). In 1956 a converted oil tanker, carrying 58 containers from Newark to Houston, set in motion a sequence of events that would change the world forever. Levinson argues that the humble shipping container has had as profound a global impact as the internet. Levinson is former Finance and Economics Editor of The Economist, writer at Newsweek and Editorial Director of The Journal of Commerce.