{"product_id":"2940177971384","title":"Outside the Box: How Globalization Changed from Moving Stuff to Spreading Ideas","description":"From the acclaimed author of The Box, a new history of globalization that shows us how to navigate its future\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGlobalization has profoundly shaped the world we live in, yet its rise was neither inevitable nor planned. It is also\u003cbr\u003eone of the most contentious issues of our time. While it may have made goods less expensive, it has also sent massive\u003cbr\u003eflows of money across borders and shaken the global balance of power. Outside the Box offers a fresh and lively history\u003cbr\u003eof globalization, showing how it has evolved over two centuries in response to changes in demography, technology, and\u003cbr\u003econsumer tastes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMarc Levinson, the acclaimed author of The Box, tells the story of globalization through the people who eliminated\u003cbr\u003ebarriers and pursued new ways of doing business. He shows how the nature of globalization changed dramatically in the\u003cbr\u003e1980s with the creation of long-distance value chains. This new type of economic relationship shifted manufacturing\u003cbr\u003eto Asia, destroying millions of jobs and devastating industrial centers in North America, Europe, and Japan. Levinson\u003cbr\u003edescribes how improvements in transportation, communications, and computing made international value chains\u003cbr\u003epossible, but how globalization was taken too far because of large government subsidies and the systematic misjudgment\u003cbr\u003eof risk by businesses. As companies began to account properly for the risks of globalization, cross-border investment fell\u003cbr\u003esharply and foreign trade lagged long before Donald Trump became president and the coronavirus disrupted business\u003cbr\u003earound the world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Outside the Box, Levinson explains that globalization is entering a new era in which moving stuff will matter\u003cbr\u003emuch less than moving services, information, and ideas","brand":"Recorded Books, LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46295251288305,"sku":"2940177971384","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0674\/5433\/7265\/files\/2940177971384_p0.jpg?v=1765397113","url":"https:\/\/shop.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940177971384","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble","version":"1.0","type":"link"}