Outside the Box

How Globalization Changed from Moving Stuff to Spreading Ideas

De: Marc Levinson

Narrado por: L.J. Ganser

Duración: 9 h y 8 m

Resumen del Editor

From the acclaimed author of The Box, a new history of globalization that shows us how to navigate its future.

Globalization 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 balance of power. Outside the Box offers a fresh and lively history of globalization, showing how it has evolved over two centuries in response to changes in demography, technology, and consumer tastes.

Marc Levinson, the acclaimed author of The Box, tells the story of globalization through the people who eliminated barriers and pursued new ways of doing business. He shows how the nature of globalization changed dramatically in the 1980s with the creation of long-distance value chains. This new type of economic relationship shifted manufacturing to Asia, destroying millions of jobs and devastating industrial centers in North America, Europe, and Japan. Levinson describes how improvements in transportation, communications, and computing made international value chains possible but how globalization was taken too far because of large government subsidies and the systematic misjudgment of risk by businesses. As companies began to account properly for the risks of globalization, cross-border investment fell sharply and foreign trade lagged long before Donald Trump became president and the coronavirus disrupted business around the world.

In Outside the Box, Levinson explains that globalization is entering a new era in which moving stuff will matter much less than moving services, information, and ideas.

©2020 Marc Levinson (P)2020 Recorded Books

we need to define the new movement in globalization so we don't leave anyone out. 😊

nothing i loved the book. I highly recommended reading it. and look forward to reading more by this author

A History of Trade, Shipping and what’s next

With a look back at history of trade and shipping and the changes it brought makes for a interesting book. Trade by shipping cargo around the world has been around the world for centuries this book dives deep into the evolution of ships. The final chapters speak of the world already being “done out of the box” with the tech changing product demand and needs.