Comments on: Marc Levinson’s “The Box” http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2007/04/23/marc-levinsons-the-box/ EthanZ's musings on Africa, media and international development Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:45:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Shipping containers and world trade at Resilience Science http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2007/04/23/marc-levinsons-the-box/comment-page-1/#comment-1191387 Shipping containers and world trade at Resilience Science Thu, 11 Sep 2008 05:14:07 +0000 http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/?p=1397#comment-1191387 [...] book on the history of containerization and its effect on globalization by Marc Levinson (here is a book review from Ethan Zuckerman and an essay by Witold [...] [...] book on the history of containerization and its effect on globalization by Marc Levinson (here is a book review from Ethan Zuckerman and an essay by Witold [...]

]]> By: …My heart’s in Accra » Mapping a connected world http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2007/04/23/marc-levinsons-the-box/comment-page-1/#comment-1187635 …My heart’s in Accra » Mapping a connected world Mon, 08 Sep 2008 17:16:18 +0000 http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/?p=1397#comment-1187635 [...] says that the project was inspired by Marc Levinson’s excellent book, The Box. (My review of the book is here.) It could just have easily been inspired by William Gibson’s newest novel, Spook Country, [...] [...] says that the project was inspired by Marc Levinson’s excellent book, The Box. (My review of the book is here.) It could just have easily been inspired by William Gibson’s newest novel, Spook Country, [...]

]]> By: Ethan Zuckerman at Idea Festival: Internet is not flat | Daily EM http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2007/04/23/marc-levinsons-the-box/comment-page-1/#comment-536851 Ethan Zuckerman at Idea Festival: Internet is not flat | Daily EM Sun, 16 Sep 2007 03:22:53 +0000 http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/?p=1397#comment-536851 [...] Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger” (which Zuckerman had blogged about it here), ge talks about the tremendous role that the shipping container played as a major facilitator of [...] [...] Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger” (which Zuckerman had blogged about it here), ge talks about the tremendous role that the shipping container played as a major facilitator of [...]

]]> By: quixote http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2007/04/23/marc-levinsons-the-box/comment-page-1/#comment-223583 quixote Mon, 23 Apr 2007 18:43:37 +0000 http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/?p=1397#comment-223583 Does he talk at all about the inexplicit subsidies? The distributed model of manufacturing only works if the associated pollution and environmental costs aren't part of the cost of the product. And don't even get me started on the social costs. I wonder how much of our world we're going to wreck before we get back to the concept that there is such a thing as <b>honest</b> business practices. If anything goes in the pursuit of maximum shareholder value, why is slavery illegal? (Don't mind me. I live near one of those container ship ports, and, man, are those ships ugly. I watch the truckers come rolling in at five in the morning after all night on the road to meet the "just in time" ship. There are so many costs associated with the whole thing, and the people making the money don't have to pay any of them. It just makes me mad.) Does he talk at all about the inexplicit subsidies? The distributed model of manufacturing only works if the associated pollution and environmental costs aren’t part of the cost of the product. And don’t even get me started on the social costs.

I wonder how much of our world we’re going to wreck before we get back to the concept that there is such a thing as honest business practices.

If anything goes in the pursuit of maximum shareholder value, why is slavery illegal?

(Don’t mind me. I live near one of those container ship ports, and, man, are those ships ugly. I watch the truckers come rolling in at five in the morning after all night on the road to meet the “just in time” ship. There are so many costs associated with the whole thing, and the people making the money don’t have to pay any of them. It just makes me mad.)

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