The world is flat : a brief history of the twenty-first century /
Thomas L. Friedman.
- 1st Picador ed., Further updated and expanded, [Pbk. ed.].
- New York : Picador/Farrar, Straus and Giroux : Distributed by Holtzbrinck Publishers, 2007.
- x, 660 p. ; 21 cm.
Release 3.0 Includes index.
While I was sleeping -- The ten forces that flattened the world -- The triple convergence -- The great sorting out -- America and free trade -- The untouchables -- The right stuff -- The quiet crisis -- This is not a test -- The Virgin of Guadalupe -- How companies cope -- Globalization of the local -- If it's not happening, it's because you're not doing it -- What happens when we all have dog's hearing -- The unflat world -- The Dell theory of conflict prevention -- 11/9 versus 9/11.
In The World Is Flat, the highly-regarded New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman advances the work on globalization that made his The Lexus and the Olive Tree a bestseller. Claiming that the world is now at an important historical point--as important as the changes brought by the discoveries by Columbus or by the Industrial Revolution--Friedman analyzes the events, inventions, and business practices that have resulted in a changed world, one he calls Globalization 3.0.
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Diffusion of innovations. Information society. Globalization--Economic aspects. Globalization--Social aspects.