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Senior Fellow for International Business
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Phone: +1.212.434.9639
E-mail: mlevinson@cfr.org
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New York, NY
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Economist, historian, and longtime journalist. Author of The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger, and many other books and articles.
Expertise:Finance and investment, financial regulation, environment, trade policy, shipping, and supply chains.
Experience:Economist, JP Morgan Chase; finance and economics editor, The Economist; writer on economics and business, Newsweek.
Languages:German, Spanish, French (fluent).
Selected Publications:Economist Guide to Financial Markets(5th ed., Profile Books/Bloomberg Books 2009); "Two Cheers for Discrimination: Deregulation and Efficiency in the Reform of U.S. Freight Transportation, 1976-1998," Enterprise & Society, March 2009; "Freight Pain," Foreign Affairs, November-December 2008; The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger (Princeton 2006); "Capitalism with a Safety Net," Harvard Business Review, September-October 1996.
October 28, 2009
Interview
CFR's Marc Levinson says further international coordination on financial regulation may do more harm than good and expresses doubts about federal restrictions on executive pay.
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October 21, 2009
Audio
Listen to Marc Levinson, senior fellow for international business at CFR, discuss the Obama administration's trade policy, American competitiveness, and the value of the U.S. dollar, as part of CFR's State and Local Officials Conference Call series.
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September 26, 2009
First Take
G-20 leaders in Pittsburgh agreed to a coordinated effort to reduce the imbalances that contributed to the global economic crisis. But CFR's Marc Levinson writes any changes in policy will be slow in coming.
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November/December 2008
Foreign Affairs Article — Summary
The golden age of globalization is over due to slower, costlier, and less certain transportation. In retrospect, Americans may lament too little globalization, not too much.
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Explore the international finance regime with a new interactive from CFR's program on International Institutions and Global Governance.
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For more than a decade, the United States has mostly watched from the sidelines as Asian countries organize themselves into an alphabet soup of new multilateral groups. In this report, the authors review the relationship between pan-Asian and trans-Pacific institutions and suggest policy guidelines for a new U.S. approach to this new Asian landscape.
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Start-Up Nation addresses the trillion-dollar question: How is it that Israel—a country of 7.1 million, only sixty years old, surrounded by enemies— produces more start-up companies than large, peaceful, and stable nations like Japan, China, India, Korea, Canada, and the UK? With the insights of geopolitical experts and investors, the authors examine this nation’s adversity-driven culture to answer this question and offer prescriptions for a global economy on the rebound.
In Forces of Fortune, Vali Nasr presents a paradigm-changing revelation that will transform the understanding of the Muslim world at large. He reveals that there is a vital but unseen rising force in the Islamic world—a new business-minded middle class—that is building a vibrant new Muslim world economy and that holds the key to winning the cold war against Iran and extremists.
In Cuba: What Everyone Needs to Know, Julia E. Sweig presents a remarkably accessible portrait of Cuba's unique place on the world stage over the past fifty years, including its internal politics, its often fraught relationship with the United States, and its shifting relationship with the global community.
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