Marc Levinson: How The Shipping Container Changed the World | "Soundings"
In 1956, a trucker named Malcolm McLean launched a ship with fifty-eight containers aboard. He was trying to solve a logistics problem. Instead, he accidentally changed the world
Economist Marc Levinson spent a decade researching containerization and discovered what McLean couldn't see: this sim...
Marc Levinson on Shipping Containers & Lessons for AI
What can a steel shipping container teach us about artificial intelligence? More than you would think.
In this episode of KPI Fireside, host Keith Norris sits down with Marc Levinson, historian, economist, and author of The Box, the definitive history of the shipping container. Marc formerly serv...
August 30, 2026, The New Books on Innovation Edition
In the Sunday Book Review, Tom Fox considers books that would interest compliance professionals, business executives, or anyone curious about the subject. It could be books about business, compliance, history, leadership, current events, or any other topic that might interest Tom. In this episode...
Containerized: How Tokenization Restacks Finance | Justin Swart | BITKRAFT Ventures [EP. 324]
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Justin Swart, Partner at BITKRAFT Ventures, joins Pete Townsend to make the case that tokenization is doing to finance what the shipping container did to global trade (standardizing the box, not the cargo - h/t Aleks Larsen, Blockchain Capital), whether that's real containerization or just the sa...
#47 The Box: The Story of the Shipping Container with Marc Levinson
What does a shipping container have to do with the global economy? Almost everything. In this episode, we sit down with economist and historian Marc Levinson to explore how a simple metal box revolutionized the way goods move across the world—and, by extension, how supply chains are organized, wh...
