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  • The Box

    How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger - Second Edition with a new chapter by the author

    de Marc Levinson ...
    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 ... Leer más

    $14.39 USD

  • Outside the Box

    How Globalization Changed from Moving Stuff to Spreading Ideas

    de Marc Levinson ...
    From the acclaimed author of The Box, a new history of globalization that shows us how to navigate its futureGlobalization has profoundly shaped the world we live in, yet its rise was neither inevitable nor planned. It is also one of the most contentious issues of our time. While it may have made goods less expensive, it has also sent massive flows of money across borders and shaken the global ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • An Extraordinary Time

    The End of the Postwar Boom and the Return of the Ordinary Economy

    de Marc Levinson ...
    The decades after World War II were a golden age across much of the world. It was a time of economic miracles, an era when steady jobs were easy to find and families could see their living standards improving year after year. And then, around 1973, the good times vanished. The world economy slumped badly, then settled into the slow, erratic growth that had been the norm before the war. The result ... Leer más

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  • Audiolibro

    The Great A&P and the Struggle for Small Business in America, Second Edition

    de Marc Levinson ...
    Narrado por William Hughes ...

    Completo

    12 hora 8 minutos

    From modest beginnings as a tea shop, the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company became the largest retailer in the world. It was a juggernaut, with nearly sixteen thousand stores. But its explosive growth made it a mortal threat to mom-and-pop grocery stores across the nation. Main Street fought back tooth and nail, leading the Hoover, Roosevelt, and Truman administrations to investigate the Great ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

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    The box

    Comment le conteneur a changé le monde

    de Marc Levinson ...
    Narrado por Isidore Amos ...

    Completo

    13 hora 59 minutos

    « Sans conteneur, il n’y aurait pas de mondialisation. » The Economist « Un classique, un récit de destruction créatrice. Intelligent et captivant. L’un des meilleurs livres d’économie de tous les temps. » The New York Times « Une histoire économique de grande envergure, une aventure fascinante… » The Times « Le conteneur a facilité les échanges, accéléré les livraisons, baissé les coûts et ... Leer más

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  • Audiolibro

    Outside the Box

    How Globalization Changed from Moving Stuff to Spreading Ideas

    de Marc Levinson ...
    Narrado por L.J. Ganser ...

    Completo

    9 hora 8 minutos

    From the acclaimed author of The Box, a new history of globalization that shows us how to navigate its futureGlobalization has profoundly shaped the world we live in, yet its rise was neither inevitable nor planned. It is alsoone of the most contentious issues of our time. While it may have made goods less expensive, it has also sent massiveflows of money across borders and shaken the global ... Leer más

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    Extraordinary Time, An

    The End of the Postwar Boom and the Return of the Ordinary Economy

    de Marc Levinson ...
    Narrado por James Foster ...

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    10 hora 55 minutos

    In An Extraordinary Time, acclaimed economic historian Marc Levinson recounts the global collapse of the postwar economy in the 1970s. While economists struggle to return us to the high economic growth rates of the past, Levinson counterintuitively argues that the boom years of the 1950s and 1960s were an anomaly; slow economic growth is the norm—no matter what economists and politicians may say. ... Leer más

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    The Ages of Globalization

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    Today's most urgent problems are fundamentally global. They require nothing less than concerted, planetwide action if we are to secure a long-term future. But humanity's story has always been on a global scale.Sachs takes listeners through a series of seven distinct waves of technological and institutional change, starting with the original settling of the planet by early modern humans through ... Leer más

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  • A Brief History of Neoliberalism

    de David Harvey ...
    Neoliberalism - the doctrine that market exchange is an ethic in itself, capable of acting as a guide for all human action - has become dominant in both thought and practice throughout much of the world since 1970 or so. Its spread has depended upon a reconstitution of state powers such that privatization, finance, and market processes are emphasized. State interventions in the economy are ... Leer más

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  • Disordered World

    Setting a New Course for the Twenty-first Century

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    Born into a Christian minority in Lebanon and since settled in France, acclaimed writer Amin Maalouf claims a unique position in global conversation. His first book, The Crusades through Arab Eyes, was a critical and commercial success and remains in print after 20 years. In Disordered World, Maalouf combines his command of history with a critical perspective on contemporary culture East and West ... Leer más

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  • The Complete Idiot's Guide to Global Economics

    Understand the Financial Forces That Drive Our World—and Our Future

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  • Because We Say So

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    "Chomsky is a global phenomenon . . . perhaps the most widely read voice on foreign policy on the planet."—New York Times Book Review"Unwavering political contrarian Noam Chomsky smart-bombs the US military's global Interventions. Shock and awe!"—Vanity FairBecause We Say So presents more than thirty concise, forceful commentaries on US politics and global power. Written between 2011 and 2015, ... Leer más

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