The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger is a non-fiction book by Marc Levinson charting the historic rise of the intermodal container (shipping container) and how it changed the economic landscape of the global economy.
[1][2] The New York Times called it "a smart, engaging book".
[4] The Box won a bronze medal in the Independent Publisher Book Awards (2007) in the "Finance/Investment/Economics" category.
[5] It also won the 2007 Anderson Medal from the Society for Nautical Research.
[6] The Box was shortlisted for the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award (2006).