| Edition |
1st Picador ed., Further updated & expanded. |
| Description |
x, 660 p. ; 21 cm. |
| Note |
Release 3.0 |
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Includes index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Subject |
Diffusion of innovations.
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Information society.
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Globalization -- Economic aspects.
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Globalization -- Social aspects.
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| ISBN |
0312425074 (pbk.) |
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9780312425074 (pbk.) |
| Standard No. |
AU@ 000042086465 |
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NZ1 13062881 |
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