The Humble Innovation At The Heart Of The Global Economy

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The Humble Innovation At The Heart Of The Global Economy by NPR.org

The shipping container completely transformed commerce over 50 years ago. It’s part of the reason the Planet Money women’s T-shirt comes from cotton grown in Mississippi, spun into yarn in Indonesia, and sewn together in Colombia.

On today’s show, we meet the captain of a giant container ship bringing our women’s T-shirt home to the United States and challenge him to a game of ping pong.

View our T-shirt’s journey at planetmoney.com/shirt.

Note: Today’s show is a rerun. It originally ran in December 2013.

Music: Jon Lemmon’s “Exodus I.” Find us: Twitter/ Facebook/ Spotify/ Tumblr.

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