THE WORLD IS FLAT
A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century
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Proclaiming the advent of "Globalization 3.0," prize-winning New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman points out how new information technology and other trends are "leveling the playing field" for non-Western nations: hence, "the world is flat."
Filling his pages with illustrative anecdotes, Friedman identifies ten world-flattening forces (examples: the fall of the Berlin Wall, the advent of the Internet, and job outsourcing). Then he examines what a "flat world" portends for the U.S., for developing countries, for international corporations, and for geopolitics.
Copyright | 2007 |
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Publisher | Picador |
Pages | 660 |
Edition | Third Edition |
Grade | 9 and up |
ISBN | 9780312425074 |