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Marc Levinson

Economist, Independent Scholar


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 The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger; The Great A&P and the Struggle for Small Business in America, about the decades-long effort to block innovation in retailing to protect small merchants; Outside the Box: How Globalization Changed from Moving Stuff to Spreading Ideas, a popular history of globalization; An Extraordinary Time, a global economic history of the 1970s and their aftermath; 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.

 

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Print Media Oversight Committee 2022 - 2025 [Chair 2024 - 2025]
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Investments Committee 2015 - 2018 [Chair 2017 - 2018]
Board of Trustees 2012 - 2015


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