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1. 1. The Box

   How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger

   

   This book provides a comprehensive history of the shipping container and its monumental impact on global trade and the economy. It delves into how a simple, standardized box revolutionized transportation and logistics, making it vastly more efficient and cost-effective. The narrative explores the container's inception, the challenges it overcame, and how it transformed ports, shipping industries, and even entire economies around the world. By focusing on this seemingly mundane object, the book uncovers the profound effects it has had on globalization, reshaping how goods are moved and traded on an international scale.

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2. 2. An Extraordinary Time

   The End of the Postwar Boom and the Return of the Ordinary Economy

   

   This book argues that the rapid, broad-based economic expansion that followed World War II was an unusual historical episode rather than a new normal, and that in the late twentieth century the world returned to a more ordinary pattern of slower growth and intermittent disruption. Drawing on international data and institutional history, the author traces how demographic shifts, changing productivity trends, technological limits, globalization, corporate behavior, and policy choices combined to end the postwar boom and reshape expectations about prosperity. Rather than treating slower growth as a failure, the book reframes it as a return to longer-run norms with important implications for public policy, business strategy, and political debate about inequality and state capacity.