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If you read only one book about globalization, make it The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger , by Marc…

Highlights Tour This post is part of the highlights tour, a series of historically significant ribbonfarm posts If you read only one book about globalization, make it The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger , by Marc Levinson (2006). If your expectations in this space have been set to "low" by the mostly obvious, lightweight and mildly entertaining stuff from the likes of Tom Friedman, be prepared to be blown away. Levinson is a heavyweight (former finance and economics editor at the Economist ), and the book has won a bagful of prizes. And with

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