The World Is Flat 3.0 A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
ISBN: 9780312425074 | 0312425074
Edition: 3rdFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Picador
Pub. Date: 7/24/2007
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A New Edition of the Phenomenal #1 Bestseller "One mark of a great book is that it makes you see things in a new way, and Mr. Friedman certainly succeeds in that goal," the Nobel laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz wrote in "The New York Times "reviewing "The World Is Flat "in 2005. In this new edition, Thomas L. Friedman includes fresh stories and insights to help us understand the flattening of the world. Weaving new information into his overall thesis, and answering the questions he has been most frequently asked by parents across the country, this ... MORE
| How the world became flat | |
| While I was sleeping | |
| The ten forces that flattened the world | |
| Flattener #1 : 11/9/89 | |
| Flattener #2 : 18/9/95 | |
| Flattener #3 : work flow software | |
| Flattener #4 : uploading | |
| Flattener #5 : outsourcing | |
| Flattener #6 : offshoring | |
| Flattener #7 : supply-chaining | |
| ... MORE | |
| Flattener #9 : in-forming | |
| Flattener #10 : the steroids | |
| The triple convergence | |
| The great sorting out | |
| America and the flat world | |
| America and free trade | |
| The untouchables | |
| The right stuff | |
| The quiet crisis | |
| This is not a test | |
| Developing countries and the flat world | |
| The virgin of guadalupe | |
| Companies and the flat world | |
| How companies cope | |
| You and the flat world | |
| 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? | |
| Geopolitics and the flat world | |
| The unflat world | |
| The dell theory of conflict prevention | |
| Conclusion : imagination | |
| 11/9 versus 9/11 | |
| Table of Contents provided by Blackwell. All Rights Reserved. |
Thomas L. Friedman has won the Pulitzer Prize three times for his work at The New York Times, where he serves as the foreign affairs columnist. He is the author of three previous books, all of them bestsellers: From Beirut to Jerusalem, winner of the National Book Award for nonfiction; The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization; and Longitudes and Attitudes: Exploring the World After September 11. In 2005 The World Is Flat was given the first Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award, and Friedman was named one of America’s Best Leaders by U.S. News & World Report. He lives in Bethesda, Maryland, with his family.
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