I grew up around shipping containers; my dad made them. I played with them in architecture school, designing a summer camp out of them, fascinated by the handling technology that made them cheap and ...

Trade requires transportation, a point economists and other generalists too often neglect. This book, a fascinating history of the shipping container, provides a strong antidote to that neglect. Since ...

Doesn’t anyone just use shipping containers for shipping anymore? Lately, we’ve seen the tough, stackable, easy-to-transport steel containers used for everything from a traveling restaurant to a ...