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Conflict and Co-operation: A History of Trade

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Paul Seabright explores the evolution of global trade in goods, people and ideas.

Conflict and Co-operation: A History of Trade: Series 1: The Box

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Paul Seabright explains why the shipping container was such a revolutionary invention.

Paul Seabright explores our trading past: the impact of a humble metal box - the shipping container. From 2018.

If there's one innovation that deserves a chapter to itself in the modern history of trade, it's the shipping container. 

Paul Seabright explores the story of the humble metal box, how it took years for it to become the shape it is today, and why it has had such an impact.

Producer: Chris Ledgard.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2018.

Conflict and Co-operation: A History of Trade: Series 1

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