Ian Kumekawa, "Empty Vessel: The Story of the Global Economy in One Barge" (Knopf, 2025)
What do a barracks for British troops in the Falklands War, a floating jail off the Bronx, and temporary housing for VW factory workers in Germany have in common? The Balder Scapa: a single barge that served all three roles. Though the name would eventually change to Finnboda 12. And then to Saf ...
Ian Kumekawa, "Empty Vessel: The Story of the Global Economy in One Barge" (Knopf, 2025)
What do a barracks for British troops in the Falklands War, a floating jail off the Bronx, and temporary housing for VW factory workers in Germany have in common? The Balder Scapa: a single barge that served all three roles. Though the name would eventually change to Finnboda 12. And then to Saf ...
Ian Kumekawa, "Empty Vessel: The Story of the Global Economy in One Barge" (Knopf, 2025)
What do a barracks for British troops in the Falklands War, a floating jail off the Bronx, and temporary housing for VW factory workers in Germany have in common? The Balder Scapa: a single barge that served all three roles. Though the name would eventually change to Finnboda 12. And then to Saf ...
Books with John Maytham
John Maytham reflects on books that caught his attention this week – stay tuned!
Fiction: · Innocent Guilt – By Remi Kone · The Immortalites – By Claire Robertson
Non- Fiction: · Empty Vessel - Ian Kumekawa
Presenter John Maytham is an actor and author-turned-talk radio veteran and seasoned j ...
The Empty Vessel: A Conversation with Ian Kumekawa
Dr. Ian Kumekawa, an Anniversary Fellow at the Center for History and Economics at Harvard, is the author of "Empty Vessel." Through the lens of a single barge, and its travels from the Falklands, Germany, to NYC's East River, Kumekawa exposes the underbelly of offshoring and its impact on the ...
"Empty Vessel: The Story of the Global Economy in One Barge" by Ian Kumekawa
What do a barracks from British troops in the Falkland War, a floating jail of the Bronx, and temporary housing for VWF workers in Germany have in common? Well according to our next guest, Ian Kumekawa, they have all inhabited one Swedish barge built in 1979. Now, the barge has so many names, th ...
Apple, China, and the Offshore World | Rethinking the Global Economy
How are Apple’s supply chains, China’s rise, and the “offshore world” redefining the global economy?
Recorded live in Washington, D.C. at the 25th Annual National Book Festival, Financial Times journalist Patrick McGee (Apple in China) and historian Ian Kumekawa (Empty Vessel) join Ken Biberaj f ...
International Book Blitz 2026
Speakers
Eram Alam, Faculty Associate. Associate Professor, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University. The Care of Foreigners: How Immigrant Physicians Changed US Healthcare (Johns Hopkins University, 2025)
Bruno Carvalho, Faculty Associate (on leave 2025–2026). Codirector, ...
The Rise of the Offshore World
In this Conflicted Conversation, Ian Kumekawa (a fellow of Harvard University and a lecturer at MIT) talks about his book Empty Vessel: The Story of the Global Economy in One Ship.
Ian explains:
The offshore global economy: where loopholes, ships and responsibility slip beyond ordinary jur ...
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