Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Friedman, Thomas L.

Publication

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007.

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Details

Description

x, 660 pages; 24 cm

Subjects

• Globalization > Social aspects
• Globalization > Economic aspects
• Information society
• Diffusion of innovations

Note

• [Release] "3.0 expanded ed."--P. ix.
• Includes index.

Contents

How the World Became Flat -- 1. While I Was Sleeping -- 2. 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 -- 3. The Triple Convergence -- 4. The Great Sorting Out -- America and the Flat World -- 5. America and Free Trade -- 6. The Untouchables -- 7. The Right Stuff -- 8. The Quiet Crisis -- 9. This Is Not a Test -- Developing Countries and the Flat World -- 10. The Virgin of Guadalupe -- Companies and the Flat World -- 11. How Companies Cope -- You and the Flat World -- 12. Globalization of the Local -- 13. If It's Not Happening, It's Because You're Not Doing It -- 14. What Happens When We All Have Dog's Hearing? -- Geopolitics and the Flat World -- 15. The Unflat World -- 16. The Dell Theory of Conflict Prevention -- Conclusion: Imagination -- 17. 11/9 Versus 9/11.

ISBN

• 9780374292782 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 0374292787 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

2007021424

OCLC

• ocn137305761
• SCSB-5925362

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries