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  Title

  The world is flat : a brief history of the twenty-first century

  Author

  Friedman, Thomas L.  

  Publisher:

  Farrar, Straus and Giroux,

  Pub date:

  2005.

  Pages:

  viii, 488 p. ;

  ISBN:

  0374292884

  Item info:

  1 copy available at Sugar Grove Campus --Todd Library.
  

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    Sugar Grove Campus --Todd Library	Copies	Material	Location	Map
    HM846 .F74 2005	1	Book	Available, On shelf

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  ISBN:

  0374292884 (hardcover : alk. paper)

  Personal Author:

  Friedman, Thomas L.

  Title:

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

  Edition:

  1st ed.

  Publication info:

  New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005.

  Physical description:

  viii, 488 p. ; 24 cm.

  General Note:

  Includes index.

  Contents:

  pt. [1]: How the world became flat. While I was sleeping -- The ten forces that flattened the world: 11/9/89 (when the walls came down and the windows went up) ; 8/9/95 (when Netscape went public) ; Work flow software (let's do lunch: have your application talk to my application) ; Open-sourcing (self-organizing collaborative communities) ; Outsourcing (Y2K) ; Offshoring (when China joined the WTO) ; Supply-chaining (Wal-Mart) ; Insourcing (UPS) ; In-forming (Google, Yahoo!, MSN Web Search) ; The steroids (digital, mobile, personal, and virtual) -- The triple convergence -- The great sorting-out. -- pt. [2]: America and the flat world. America and free trade (is Ricardo still right?) -- The untouchables -- The quiet crisis -- This is not a test. -- pt. [3] Developing countries and the flat world. The virgin of Guadalupe. -- pt. [4] Companies and the flat world. How companies cope. -- pt. [5] Geopolitics and the flat world. The unflat world -- The Dell theory of conflict prevention. -- Conclusion. Imagination: 11/9 versus 9/11.

  Summary:

  When scholars write the history of the world twenty years from now, what will they say was the most crucial development at the dawn of the 21st century--the attacks of 9/11, or the convergence of technology and events that allowed India, China, and so many other countries to become part of the global supply chain for services and manufacturing, creating an explosion of wealth in the middle classes of the world's two biggest nations, and giving them a huge new stake in the success of globalization? And with this "flattening" of the globe, has the world gotten too small and too fast for human beings and their political systems to adjust in a stable manner? Friedman explains how the flattening of the world happened; what it means to countries, companies, communities, and individuals; and how governments and societies can, and must, adapt.

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  Subject term:

  Diffusion of innovations.

  Subject term:

  Information society.

  Subject term:

  Globalization--Economic aspects.

  Subject term:

  Globalization--Social aspects.

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