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Epilogue: A Key Industry or an Invisible Industry?

In: The World’s Key Industry

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  • Gelina Harlaftis
  • Stig Tenold
  • Jesús M. Valdaliso

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The title of this volume presents shipping as ‘the world’s key industry’, but this primarily reflects the insiders’ view of the role of shipping. In mainstream economic history and economics, however, another, less advantageous epithet would be more fitting, namely ‘the invisible industry’. Maritime transport has never played a central role in the main academic debates of economic history or economics.3 At the same time, all the chapters in this volume have shown that shipping has been crucial to the emergence of a global economy.

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  • Gelina Harlaftis & Stig Tenold & Jesús M. Valdaliso, 2012. "Epilogue: A Key Industry or an Invisible Industry?," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Gelina Harlaftis & Stig Tenold & Jesús M. Valdaliso (ed.), The World’s Key Industry, chapter 15, pages 263-272, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-00375-1_15
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137003751_15
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