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.