Shipping and Logistics
Deeply cyclical, asset-heavy and near-invisible until it breaks; the physical substrate of global trade.
9 books · 2 people behind it
Start here
- The BoxMarc Levinson, 2006
- Ninety Percent of EverythingRose George, 2013
- Maritime EconomicsMartin Stopford, 1988
The people behind it 2
Each person holds a book in this entry or names it in their own tags.
Investors 1
Academics 1
Books 9
David McCullough · 1977 · The Panama Canal: chokepoint economics and what building one costs.
Martin Stopford · 1988 · The standard reference on shipping cycles and freight-rate formation.
T1 The Box
Marc Levinson · 2006 · How containerisation reordered ports, labour and world trade.
William J. Bernstein · 2008 · How trade shaped the world, from Mesopotamia to the shipping container
Rose George · 2013 · Published in the UK as Deep Sea and Foreign Going.
Ian Urbina · 2019 · Flags of convenience, crew abuse and jurisdictional voids at sea.
Peter S. Goodman · 2024 · The pandemic freight squeeze traced through the whole chain.
Matthew McCleery · 2011 · A novel, and still the best account of shipping cycles and vessel finance.
