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

by Marc Levinson

Between 1966 and 1990, economists Daniel M. Bernhofen, Zouheir El-Sahli, and Richard Kneller reported in 2013, the container was more than twice as important in increasing the flow of international trade among the wealthy countries as governments’ efforts to eliminate formal trade barriers. The box made the world economy much, much bigger.41