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Book; Dawn Watch
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/2018/01/17/long-read-review-the-dawn-watch-joseph-conrad-in-a-global-world-by-maya-jasanoff/
In her smoothly written and ingeniously constructed new book, The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World, Harvard historian Maya Jasanoff offers the life and work of the novelist Joseph Conrad as a tool with which to untangle the railroads, steamship routes and telegraph cables that made the world smaller in the nineteenth century. Born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski in 1857 to Polish nationalists in exile in imperial Russia, Conrad spent the first 40 years of his life as a young immigrant in London and as a sailor in the French and British merchant marines. In the late 1890s he settled permanently in England and began his career as a novelist. Conrad’s personal history and geography, from Russia to the Congo, Jasanoff argues, shows a ‘global world’ in the making: his fiction offers a meditation on coping with that new world. Since most of Conrad’s papers are from his writing life, Jasanoff finds Conrad’s maritime life by triangulating between archival records, broader historical contexts and four of his most famous novels, The Secret Agent, Lord Jim, Heart of Darkness and Nostromo, published between 1899 and 1907.
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/2018/01/17/long-read-review-the-dawn-watch-joseph-conrad-in-a-global-world-by-maya-jasanoff/
In her smoothly written and ingeniously constructed new book, The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World, Harvard historian Maya Jasanoff offers the life and work of the novelist Joseph Conrad as a tool with which to untangle the railroads, steamship routes and telegraph cables that made the world smaller in the nineteenth century. Born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski in 1857 to Polish nationalists in exile in imperial Russia, Conrad spent the first 40 years of his life as a young immigrant in London and as a sailor in the French and British merchant marines. In the late 1890s he settled permanently in England and began his career as a novelist. Conrad’s personal history and geography, from Russia to the Congo, Jasanoff argues, shows a ‘global world’ in the making: his fiction offers a meditation on coping with that new world. Since most of Conrad’s papers are from his writing life, Jasanoff finds Conrad’s maritime life by triangulating between archival records, broader historical contexts and four of his most famous novels, The Secret Agent, Lord Jim, Heart of Darkness and Nostromo, published between 1899 and 1907.
Paper; The Red Sea link. Geo-economic projections
https://cadmus.eui.eu/bitstream/handle/1814/72105/QM-03-21-328-EN-N.pdf
The Red Sea region is becoming increasingly important in global geopolitics. Given its importance for global trade and security, growing geo-economic projections, military rivalries and the risk of confrontation between key regional players and international actors are growing and could have far-reaching and disruptive repercussions. This paper explores the critical economic and security issues that link littoral, regional and international powers to the Red Sea region. It shows how efforts by countries in the broader Gulf region and external powers to extend their influence to the Red Sea and the Horn of Africa can produce a potential new conflict zone. It concludes by offering some reflections on how to promote regional security and economic development in the region, with a view to minimising the risk of conflict and increasing opportunities for cooperation
https://cadmus.eui.eu/bitstream/handle/1814/72105/QM-03-21-328-EN-N.pdf
The Red Sea region is becoming increasingly important in global geopolitics. Given its importance for global trade and security, growing geo-economic projections, military rivalries and the risk of confrontation between key regional players and international actors are growing and could have far-reaching and disruptive repercussions. This paper explores the critical economic and security issues that link littoral, regional and international powers to the Red Sea region. It shows how efforts by countries in the broader Gulf region and external powers to extend their influence to the Red Sea and the Horn of Africa can produce a potential new conflict zone. It concludes by offering some reflections on how to promote regional security and economic development in the region, with a view to minimising the risk of conflict and increasing opportunities for cooperation
Mainsheet
https://www.mainsheet.mysticseaport.org/
Mainsheet is a peer-reviewed journal of maritime history and culture, the only publication of its kind produced by an American maritime museum. It is set apart from other scholarly journals by its multi-disciplinary perspectives; its accessibility to a broad, global audience on issues past, present, and future; and its freshness of design. The editorial board represents an international team of expert scholars from various fields.
https://www.mainsheet.mysticseaport.org/
Mainsheet is a peer-reviewed journal of maritime history and culture, the only publication of its kind produced by an American maritime museum. It is set apart from other scholarly journals by its multi-disciplinary perspectives; its accessibility to a broad, global audience on issues past, present, and future; and its freshness of design. The editorial board represents an international team of expert scholars from various fields.
Dutch Textile Trade Project
https://dutchtextiletrade.org/
This project aims to understand the circulation of textiles on Dutch ships around the world in the seventeenth and eighteenth century, by examining data drawn from trade records alongside samples of textiles and visual culture depicting the use of textiles. The Visual Textile Glossary is our centerpiece, providing each historical textile term with a short definition and a longer essay contextualizing that textile’s production and circulation, with visual and material examples, and you can explore and download the relevant data.
https://dutchtextiletrade.org/
This project aims to understand the circulation of textiles on Dutch ships around the world in the seventeenth and eighteenth century, by examining data drawn from trade records alongside samples of textiles and visual culture depicting the use of textiles. The Visual Textile Glossary is our centerpiece, providing each historical textile term with a short definition and a longer essay contextualizing that textile’s production and circulation, with visual and material examples, and you can explore and download the relevant data.
Article: Can Cybersocialist Planning Become a Reality?
https://jacobin.com/2023/04/cybersocialism-economic-planning-marxism-information-theory-econophysics
The digital revolution of recent decades allows for much more developed resource allocation than was possible in the 20th century. Cybersocialist planning, some argue, can provide for a rational allocation of resources, under real democratic control.
https://jacobin.com/2023/04/cybersocialism-economic-planning-marxism-information-theory-econophysics
The digital revolution of recent decades allows for much more developed resource allocation than was possible in the 20th century. Cybersocialist planning, some argue, can provide for a rational allocation of resources, under real democratic control.
Article: Cybernetics of the Future
https://cosmonautmag.com/2022/07/glushkov-and-his-ideas-cybernetics-of-the-future-by-vasiliy-pikhorovich/
As capitalist waste leads to more and more obviously ecological devastation, we communists must be louder in proclaiming that another world is possible. Opposed to the anarchy of the market is the idea of a planned economy, and more specifically a socialist one. The centennial objection to planning is that it is impossible to plan something as complex as the economy that results from millions of agents making billions of transactions. However, with computers that are becoming smarter every day and increasingly capable of solving some of the most complex problems in the world, why should economic planning be excluded from these advances?
https://cosmonautmag.com/2022/07/glushkov-and-his-ideas-cybernetics-of-the-future-by-vasiliy-pikhorovich/
As capitalist waste leads to more and more obviously ecological devastation, we communists must be louder in proclaiming that another world is possible. Opposed to the anarchy of the market is the idea of a planned economy, and more specifically a socialist one. The centennial objection to planning is that it is impossible to plan something as complex as the economy that results from millions of agents making billions of transactions. However, with computers that are becoming smarter every day and increasingly capable of solving some of the most complex problems in the world, why should economic planning be excluded from these advances?
Landscapes of Trade
https://mertennefs.eu/landscapes-of-trade/
Logistiek is een onlosmakelijk deel van ons dagelijks leven, en een cruciaal ingrediënt van de circulaire economie. Tegelijkertijd groeit de kritiek omtrent de ‘verdozing’ van het landschap door grote distributiecentra, vaak gerelateerd aan e-commerce. De ruimtelijke voetafdruk en gemiddelde grootte van een loods zijn sinds 1980 verviervoudigd. Hierdoor neemt congestie van wegen toe en gaat de kwaliteit van leven achteruit. Deze kaart is een vereenvoudigde weergave van de ruimtelijke dataset die onderzoeker Merten Nefs gebruikt in zijn promotieonderzoek Landscapes of trade - een samenwerking van TU Delft, Erasmus School of Economics en Vereniging Deltametropool. De kaart is bedoeld voor iedereen die inzicht wil krijgen in het ruimtelijk patroon van logistiek in Nederland, en in het bijzonder de goederenvervoer corridor Oost/Zuidoost, de meest intensieve van Nederland.
https://mertennefs.eu/landscapes-of-trade/
Logistiek is een onlosmakelijk deel van ons dagelijks leven, en een cruciaal ingrediënt van de circulaire economie. Tegelijkertijd groeit de kritiek omtrent de ‘verdozing’ van het landschap door grote distributiecentra, vaak gerelateerd aan e-commerce. De ruimtelijke voetafdruk en gemiddelde grootte van een loods zijn sinds 1980 verviervoudigd. Hierdoor neemt congestie van wegen toe en gaat de kwaliteit van leven achteruit. Deze kaart is een vereenvoudigde weergave van de ruimtelijke dataset die onderzoeker Merten Nefs gebruikt in zijn promotieonderzoek Landscapes of trade - een samenwerking van TU Delft, Erasmus School of Economics en Vereniging Deltametropool. De kaart is bedoeld voor iedereen die inzicht wil krijgen in het ruimtelijk patroon van logistiek in Nederland, en in het bijzonder de goederenvervoer corridor Oost/Zuidoost, de meest intensieve van Nederland.
Coal, Iron, Steel Flows 1910-30
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Supply Chain Evolution – Theory, Concepts and Science
http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/60767/1/__smbhome.uscs.susx.ac.uk_qlfd7_Desktop_Supply%20Chain%20Evolution.pdf
The supply chain landscape is changing. New supply chains emerge and evolve for a variety of reasons. In this paper we examine the nature of new and changing supply chains and their influences, and address the broad question “What makes a supply chain like it is?”. The paper highlights and develops key aspects, concepts, and principal themes concerning the emergence and evolution of supply chains over their life cycle. We identify six factors that interact and may affect a supply chain over its life cycle. A number of emergent themes and propositions on factors affecting a supply chain’s characteristics over its life cycle are presented. We argue that a new science is needed to investigate and understand the supply chain life cycle. Supply chains are essential to the world economy and to modern life. Understanding the supply chain life cycle and how supply chains may evolve provides fresh perspectives on contemporary supply chain management. The paper presents detailed reflections from leading researchers on emerging, evolving and mature supply chains.
http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/60767/1/__smbhome.uscs.susx.ac.uk_qlfd7_Desktop_Supply%20Chain%20Evolution.pdf
The supply chain landscape is changing. New supply chains emerge and evolve for a variety of reasons. In this paper we examine the nature of new and changing supply chains and their influences, and address the broad question “What makes a supply chain like it is?”. The paper highlights and develops key aspects, concepts, and principal themes concerning the emergence and evolution of supply chains over their life cycle. We identify six factors that interact and may affect a supply chain over its life cycle. A number of emergent themes and propositions on factors affecting a supply chain’s characteristics over its life cycle are presented. We argue that a new science is needed to investigate and understand the supply chain life cycle. Supply chains are essential to the world economy and to modern life. Understanding the supply chain life cycle and how supply chains may evolve provides fresh perspectives on contemporary supply chain management. The paper presents detailed reflections from leading researchers on emerging, evolving and mature supply chains.
Book: Around the World in Eighty Days
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Around_the_World_in_Eighty_Days
Here Jules Verne for the first time in history imagined the possibility of planning a journey across the world. The canary in the coalmine of supply chain management.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Around_the_World_in_Eighty_Days
Here Jules Verne for the first time in history imagined the possibility of planning a journey across the world. The canary in the coalmine of supply chain management.
Book: Red Plenty
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/aug/08/red-plenty-francis-spufford
Set in Soviet Russia, these vivid short stories highlight the failings of planned economies. What else is Supply Chain Management than a uniquely Soviet science reapplied?
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/aug/08/red-plenty-francis-spufford
Set in Soviet Russia, these vivid short stories highlight the failings of planned economies. What else is Supply Chain Management than a uniquely Soviet science reapplied?
History of Food Traceability
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/325247189_History_of_food_traceability
In the past the food industry has had its fair share of scandals, accidents, and incidents. It must be pointed out that reported food scares were not always associated with microorganisms; many of them were connected to new technology, environmental pollution or changes in co-product management. For example the food colorant (tartrazine and amaranth) incident reported in mid-1980 in UK; mercury poisoning in oranges reported in 1979; mercury poisoning in fish reported in 1970; radioactivity in lamb reported in 1986; glass, pin and caustic soda found in baby food product reported in UK in 1989 which resulted in the recall of 100 million jars off the shelves and repackaging of another 60 million. These incidents are very much in the memories of the general public.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/325247189_History_of_food_traceability
In the past the food industry has had its fair share of scandals, accidents, and incidents. It must be pointed out that reported food scares were not always associated with microorganisms; many of them were connected to new technology, environmental pollution or changes in co-product management. For example the food colorant (tartrazine and amaranth) incident reported in mid-1980 in UK; mercury poisoning in oranges reported in 1979; mercury poisoning in fish reported in 1970; radioactivity in lamb reported in 1986; glass, pin and caustic soda found in baby food product reported in UK in 1989 which resulted in the recall of 100 million jars off the shelves and repackaging of another 60 million. These incidents are very much in the memories of the general public.
Book: The Box
https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691170817/the-box
How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger by Mark Levinson.
https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691170817/the-box
How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger by Mark Levinson.
First use of the word supply chain
https://www.supplychainopz.com/2013/05/history-of-logistics.html
In 1905, The newspaper "The Independent" published the article that contained the word "Supply Chain" for the first time
https://www.supplychainopz.com/2013/05/history-of-logistics.html
In 1905, The newspaper "The Independent" published the article that contained the word "Supply Chain" for the first time
First use of the word logistics
https://www.supplychainopz.com/2013/05/history-of-logistics.html
The word "Logistics" began in January 1810 on the "Scots Magazine, and Edinburgh Literary Miscellany for January 1810"
https://www.supplychainopz.com/2013/05/history-of-logistics.html
The word "Logistics" began in January 1810 on the "Scots Magazine, and Edinburgh Literary Miscellany for January 1810"