Outside the Box : : How Globalization Changed from Moving Stuff to Spreading Ideas / / Marc Levinson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Business and Economics 2020 English
• VerfasserIn: Levinson, Marc,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (288 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction --; Part I. Coming Together --; 1 Global Dreams --; 2 The First Globalization --; 3 Retreat --; 4 North and South --; Part II. One World --; 5 The Container Revolution --; 6 Hot Money --; 7 Kindling --; 8 "A Giant Sucking Sound" --; Part III. Tales of Excess --; 9 Dentist Ships --; 10 Hand on the Scale --; 11 The China Price --; 12 Capturing Value --; Part IV. Global Fears --; 13 Giants Afloat --; 14 Risks Unmeasured --; 15 The Crisis in Global Finance --; 16 Backlash --; Part V. The Fourth Globalization --; 17 Red Tide --; 18 Food Miles --; 19 Broken Chains --; 20 The Next Wave --; Acknowledgments --; Notes --; Index --; A NOTE ON THE TYPE
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780691205830; 9783110704792; 9783110704716; 9783110704518; 9783110704624; 9783110690088
• DOI: 10.1515/9780691205830?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Marc Levinson.

The transformations in globalization's past that show 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 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 to excess as a result 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.