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The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century

ISBN: 9780374292881 | 0374292884
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date: 4/5/2005

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SummaryTable of ContentsAuthor Biography
When scholars write the history of the world twenty years from now, and they come to the chapter "Y2K to March 2004," what will they say was the most crucial development? The attacks on the World Trade Center on 9/11 and the Iraq war? Or the convergence of technology and events that allowed India, China, and so many other countries to become part of the global supply chain for services and manufacturing, creating an explosion of wealth in the middle classes of the world's two biggest nations, giving them a huge new stake in the success of globa... MORE
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How the World Became Flat
While I Was Sleeping
3(45)
The Ten Forces That Flattened the World
48(125)
Flattener #1. 11/9/89
Flattener #2. 8/9/95
Flattener #3. Work Flow Software
Flattener #4. Open-Sourcing
Flattener #5. Outsourcing
Flattener #6. Offshoring
Flattener #7. Supply-Chaining
Flattener #8. Insourcing
Flattener #9. In-forming
Flattener #10. The Steroids
The Triple Convergence
173(28)
The Great Sorting Out
201(24)
America and the Flat World
America and Free Trade
225(12)
The Untouchables
237(13)
The Quiet Crisis
250(26)
This Is Not a Test
276(33)
Developing Countries and the Flat World
The Virgin of Guadalupe
309(30)
Companies and the Flat World
How Companies Cope
339(32)
Geopolitics and the Flat World
The Unflat World
371(43)
The Dell Theory of Conflict Prevention
414(27)
Conclusion: Imagination
11/9 Versus 9/11
441(30)
Acknowledgments471(4)
Index475
Thomas L. Friedman has won the Pulitzer Prize three times for his work at The New York Times. He is the author of three best-selling books: From Beiruit to Jerusalem (FSG, 1989), winner of the National Book Award for nonfiction and still considered to be the definitive work on the Middle East, The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization (FSG, 1999), and Longitudes and Attitudes: Exploring the World After September 11 (FSG, 2002). He lives in Bethesda, Maryland, with his family.

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