Outside the Box: The History and Future of Globalization

Peoples & Things | 21 August 2023 | 1h 02m | Listen Later | Podcasts | Spotify
Interview with Marc Levinson about his book Outside the Box: How Globalization Changed from Moving Stuff to Spreading Ideas. Traces the history of globalization from the early 19th century to the present and shows how its nature has shifted over time. Argues that the most recent form of globalization, focused on moving stuff around the globe, has been in decline since the 2008 financial crisis and that a new form of globalization, focused on moving people, services, and ideas, may be emerging.

See also the interview with Marc Levinson about his earlier book Box.

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How One Man and Some Metal Boxes Revolutionized Global Trade

Trade Talks | 29 June 2020 | 0h 44m | Listen Later | iTunes
Interview with Marc Levinson about his book The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger. Tells the story of Malcom McLean’s innovation to containerise shipping and the resulting impact on people, ports, cities and trade.

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Marc Levinson On “An Extraordinary Time”

Reader’s Corner | 20 October 2017 | 0h 29m | Listen Later 
Interview with Marc Levinson about the ideas in An Extraordinary Time: The End of the Postwar Boom and the Return of the Ordinary Economy. Disentangles the secular forces behind the transition from rapid post-war economic growth to the much slower growth thereafter.

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