From the acclaimed author of The Box, a new history of globalization that shows us how to navigate its future Globalization has profoundly shaped the world we live in, yet its rise was neither inevitable nor planned. It is also one of the most contentious issues of our time. While it may have made goods less expensive, it has also sent massive flows of money across borders and shaken the global balance of power. Marc Levinson offers a fresh and lively history of globalization, showing how it has evolved over two centuries and revealing how it is entering a new era in which moving stuff will matter much less than moving services, information, and ideas.About the Author: Marc Levinson is the author of several books, including The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger (Princeton). He was formerly finance and economics editor at The Economist and a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.