Transportation, Retailing, supply chains and globalization, regulation, Finance
Marc Levinson is an economist, historian, and journalist who writes and speaks about economic and business issues. His books include An Extraordinary Time, a global economic history of the 1970s and their aftermath; The Box, about the development of containerization and its economic consequences; The Great A&P, about the decades-long effort to block innovation in retailing to protect small merchants; and The Economist Guide to Financial Markets. He was formerly a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, an economist at a leading bank, and finance and economics editor of The Economist.