Outside the box [electronic resource] : how globalization changed from moving stuff to spreading ideas

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자료유형	e-Book
서명/저자사항	Outside the box [electronic resource]: how globalization changed from moving stuff to spreading ideas / Marc Levinson.
개인저자	Levinson, Marc, author.
발행사항	Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, [2020].
형태사항	1 online resource (vi, 277 pages).
기타형태 저록	Print version: Levinson, Marc. Small world Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2020] 9780691191768
ISBN	0691205833 9780691205830
서지주기	Includes bibliographical references and index.
요약	"Marc Levinson offers a brief history of globalization through the stories of the fascinating people and companies that built global supply chains. In Small World he will follow the thread of the balance between people in the private sector pursuing new ways to make goods and do business and governments eliminating barriers. These two spheres-the private sector and government-did not go global in tandem, and many developments in one sphere were far more impactful in the other than imagined at the time. The book will narrate the development of global supply chains in response to trends in both, telling stories ranging from a Prussian-born trader in New Jersey in the 1760s who dreamed of buidling a vertically-integrated metals empire, to new megaships too big to call on most of the world's ports leaving half empty, as globalization entered a new stage in its history around 2006. Bringing the story up to the present, Levinson engagingly illustrates how we're not experiencing the end of globalization, only its transformation. As one type of globalization is declining, a new one is on the rise"--
해제	Provided by publisher.
일반주제명	Globalization --Economic aspects --History. Globalization --Economic aspects.
분류기호(DDC)	337.09
언어	영어
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