The world is flat : a brief history of the twenty-first century
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
Print Book, English, 2007
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Picador/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2007
x, 660 pages
9780374292782, 9780312425074, 0374292787, 0312425074
1005500829
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