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The reality is that modern shipping is an industrial
operation comprising a complex web of logistics, thousands upon thousands of
transactions, multi-million dollar deals, and billions of dollars' worth of
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New The
Shipping Man (A Novel) Matthew McCleery Marine Money Inc., 2013 (Second edition), pp. 308 Upcoming Book Review The Asian Journal of Shipping and Logistics,
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In the last few decades, there is a growing interest
on non-fiction business books, and thousands of new books are published each
year. Among these books, two major themes are broadly established: Textbook
style and story-teller style authorships. It is quite clear that
story-telling has pioneered a new and prospering era in the business and
economics literature. Although some historical books somewhat employed the
story-telling instrument, the 21st century has given a particular platform
for every professional and scholar to tell their knowledge in this manner
which spreads through millions of people. The superiority of story-telling
comes from our childhood senses and the mechanism of curiosity building.
People tend to be more connected and snoopy through attention-grabbing
stories. Therefore, the bestsellers of our time usually has a narrative
content with experiences of both daily life and business. Readers are pulled
into the house of author. In addition to the narrative business writing,
novels have found significant place by embedding stories and essential topics
in business. The Shipping Man of Matthew McCleery introduces its character
Robert Fairchild a New York based fund manager and tells a thrilling story of
his first impression and experiences in the shipping business. A number of
coincidences lead him to invest in the shipping business and after a short
experience he moves to a managerial seat of a shipping company owned by a
shipping tycoon. Academic journals usually publish reviews for
non-fiction books or textbooks etc. However, a novel is selected for this
time based on its unique way of telling shipping matters through a narrative
presentation. There is also an additional feature of The Shipping Man which
is the contemporary content expressed through exclusively selected dialogue
between characters. These dialogues draw attention to the behavioural
economics of shipping business as well as popular topics in the modern
economic perspectives. The book presents some fundamental concepts of ship
investments with the erroneous human nature. From this perspective, it
discloses the irrationality of rationality postulate as an essential basis of
neo-classical economic interpretation. The
entire book review will be available online at ScienceDirect shortly. |
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