Levinson worked for many years as a journalist, including as editorial director of The Journal of Commerce, then a daily newspaper; as a business writer at Newsweek magazine; and as finance and economics editor of The Economist.
He worked for JP Morgan Chase, where he developed the company's environmental research for institutional investor clients.
In addition to writing frequently for The Wall Street Journal, he has contributed to Harvard Business Review, the New York Times, and Foreign Affairs.
[5] The Great A&P and the Struggle for Small Business in America is a history of the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, better known as A&P, an American grocery chain that was the world's largest retailer from 1920 to 1962 and faced frequent attacks from politicians who accused it of destroying small businesses by selling food too cheaply.
[6] An Extraordinary Time: The End of the Postwar Boom and the Return of the Ordinary Economy, recounts the global collapse of the postwar economic boom in the 1970s and the adoption of free-market ideas in many countries as political leaders sought to restore rapid economic growth.