Marc Levinson's book The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger [1] is a good source. Many people, including a very

Marc Levinson's book The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger [1] is a good source. Many people, including a very vocal minority of HN commenters, subscribe to a romanticized view of nature. Steven Pinker refers to this as the Noble Savage [2] in his book The Blank Slate [3]. Personally, I think Adam Smith's Invisible Hand and Charles Darwin's Tangled Bank are both manifestations of the same marvellous mechanism: emergent order. [1] https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691170817/the-box https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691170817/th... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_savage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_savage [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blank_Slate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blank_Slate