The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger. By Marc Levinson. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2006. xii + 376 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, tables. Cloth, $24.95. ISBN: 0-691-12324-1.

2006 ◽  
Vol 80 (4) ◽  
pp. 775-778
Author(s):  
Shane Hamilton
Keyword(s):  
World Economy ◽  
Shipping Container ◽  
Princeton University ◽  
The World

The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger

2006 ◽  
Vol 85 (5) ◽  
pp. 161 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard N. Cooper ◽  
Marc Levinson
Keyword(s):  
World Economy ◽  
Shipping Container ◽  
The World

The Challenge of Global Capitalism: The World Economy in the 21st Century. By Robert Gilpin, with the assistance of Jean Millis Gilpin. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000. 373p. $29.95.

2001 ◽  
Vol 95 (1) ◽  
pp. 257-258
Author(s):  
Sylvia Ostry
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
World Economy ◽  
Global Capitalism ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Financial Flows ◽  
Princeton University ◽  
The World ◽  
World Econ

The word globalization first appeared in the second half of the 1980s and now has become the most ubiquitous in the language of international relations. It has spawned a new vocabulary: globaloney (Why all the hype when the global economy was more integrated in the age of Queen Victo- ria?): globaphobia (the new, mainly mistaken, backlash); globeratti (the members of the international nongovernmen- tal organizations [INGOs] who travel around the world from conference to conference, except when they are on the Internet mobilizing for the next conference), and so on. For Robert Gilpin, among the world's most eminent scholars of international relations, globalization is insightfully defined as the deepening and widening integration of the world econ- omy by trade, financial flows, investment, and technology.

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