Marc Levinson
Marc Levinson is an economist, historian, and author 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, manager of transportation and industry research at the Congressional Research Service, and finance and economics editor of The Economist.
Service to the BHC
Recent Conference Participation
| 2026 BHC Meeting:
Presenter, "UPS and the Teamsters: A History Built on Myths"
Chair, Pluralizing Response: Business in the Face of Crisis in the Long 1970s |
| 2025 BHC meeting:
Chair, Agribusiness, Labor, and the Environment |
| 2024 BHC Meeting:
Presenter, "The Battle for the Doorstep: The Creation of the Parcel Delivery Industry in Postwar America"
Chair, Highway Economies: Tracing the Dirty Roads of Farm to Shelves |
| 2023 BHC Meeting:
Presenter, Roundtable Presentation
Chair, Business and the Environment Discussant, Business and the Environment |
| 2023 BHC Meeting:
Presenter, "What’s a Grocery Store? Kroger, Albertsons, and Competion in a Reinvented Industry"
Chair, Business and the Environment Discussant, Business and the Environment |
| 2022 BHC Meeting :
Presenter, "Deregulation and Market Structure: The Case of Television "
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| 2020 BHC Meeting:
Presenter, "What's a Comparative Advantage?"
Chair, Foreign Direct Investment and Nationalism Discussant, Foreign Direct Investment and Nationalism |