Outside the Box: How Globalization Changed from Moving Stuff to Spreading Ideas

"Levinson deals lucidly with thorny matters. . . . A rational, welcome exploration of an international trade that is now at a crossroads, becoming less global than regional."—Kirkus Reviews

"Marc Levinson's The Box is the best single book about globalization as it struck and remade the world. His Outside the Box is a superb look at how globalization is itself changing—and in the process hopefully changing us from a world in which globalization has big winners and losers to one in which globalization is truly win-win."—J. Bradford DeLong, coauthor of The End of Influence: What Happens When Other Countries Have the Money

"Stimulating. In this excellent book, Levinson brings new insights to the story of globalization."—Mira Wilkins, author of The History of Foreign Investment in the United States, 1914–1945

"A sweeping and lucid account of the world's encounter with globalization across the past century. Marc Levinson is especially illuminating about the current moment, and how globalization's new 'operating system' is quietly but powerfully reshaping the spheres in which we live and work. Outside the Box superbly dissects the inner workings of the international economy."—Gary Gerstle, author of Liberty and Coercion: The Paradox of American Government from the Founding to the Present