The world is flat A brief history of the twenty-first century / Thomas L. Friedman

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: United States of America: Library of congress cataloging in publication data, 2005.Description: 600 p. 24 x 16 cmISBN:
  • 9780374292799
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 1 ed. 909.83 F899w
Contents:
ntroduction to the Updated and Expanded Edition How the World Became Flat One: While I Was Sleeping Two: The Ten Forces That Flattened the World Flattener #1: 11/9/89 Flattener #2: 8/9/95 Flattener #3: Work Flow Software Flattener #4: Uploading Flattener #5: Outsourcing Flattener #6: Offshoring Flattener #7: Supply-Chaining Flattener #8: Insourcing Flattener #9: In-forming Flattener #10: The Steroids Three: The Triple Convergence Four: The Great Sorting Out America and the Flat World Five: America and Free Trade Six: The Untouchables Seven: The Right Stuff Eight: The Quiet Crisis Nine: This Is Not a Test Developing Countries and the Flat World Ten: The Virgin of Guadalupe Companies and the Flat World Eleven: How Companies Cope Geopolitics and the Flat World Twelve: The Unflat World Thirteen: Globalization of the Local Fourteen: The Dell Theory of Conflict Prevention Conclusion: Imagination Fifteen: 11/9 Versus 9/11 Acknowledgments Index
Summary: "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. For this updated and • expanded edition, Friedman has seen his own book in a new way, bringing fresh stories and insights to help us understand the flattening of the world. New material includes: • The reasons why the flattening of the world "will be seen in time as one of those fundamental shifts or inflection points, like Gutenberg's invention of the printing press, the rise of the nation-state, or the Industrial Revolution" • An explanation of "uploading" as one of the ten forces that are flattening the world, as blogging, open-source software, pooled knowledge projects like Wikipedia, and podcasting enable individuals to bring their experiences and opinions to the whole world • A mapping of the New Middle— the places and spaces in the flat world where middle-class jobs will be found-and portraits of the character types who will find success as New Middlers • An account of the qualities American parents and teachers need to cultivate in young people so that they will be able to thrive in the flat world • A call for a government-led "geo-green" strategy to preserve the environment and natural resources • An account of the "globalization of the local": how the flattening of the world is actually strengthening local and regional identities rather than homogenizing the world
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ntroduction to the Updated and Expanded Edition
How the World Became Flat

One: While I Was Sleeping
Two: The Ten Forces That Flattened the World

Flattener #1: 11/9/89
Flattener #2: 8/9/95
Flattener #3: Work Flow Software
Flattener #4: Uploading
Flattener #5: Outsourcing
Flattener #6: Offshoring
Flattener #7: Supply-Chaining
Flattener #8: Insourcing
Flattener #9: In-forming
Flattener #10: The Steroids
Three: The Triple Convergence
Four: The Great Sorting Out

America and the Flat World
Five: America and Free Trade
Six: The Untouchables
Seven: The Right Stuff
Eight: The Quiet Crisis
Nine: This Is Not a Test

Developing Countries and the Flat World
Ten: The Virgin of Guadalupe

Companies and the Flat World
Eleven: How Companies Cope

Geopolitics and the Flat World
Twelve: The Unflat World
Thirteen: Globalization of the Local
Fourteen: The Dell Theory of Conflict Prevention

Conclusion: Imagination
Fifteen: 11/9 Versus 9/11

Acknowledgments
Index

"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. For this updated and
• expanded edition, Friedman has seen his own book in a new way, bringing fresh stories and insights to help us understand the flattening of the world. New material includes:
• The reasons why the flattening of the world "will be seen in time as one of those fundamental shifts or inflection points, like Gutenberg's invention of the printing press, the rise of the nation-state, or the Industrial Revolution"
• An explanation of "uploading" as one of the ten forces that are flattening the world, as blogging, open-source software, pooled knowledge projects like Wikipedia, and podcasting enable individuals to bring their experiences and opinions to the whole world
• A mapping of the New Middle— the places and spaces in the flat world where middle-class jobs will be found-and portraits of the character types who will find success as New Middlers
• An account of the qualities American parents and teachers need to cultivate in young people so that they will be able to thrive in the flat world
• A call for a government-led "geo-green" strategy to preserve the environment and natural resources
• An account of the "globalization of the local": how the flattening of the world is actually strengthening local and regional identities rather than homogenizing the world

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