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The world is flat : a brief history of the twenty-first century / Thomas L. Friedman. - 1st updated and expanded ed. - New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006. - viii, 593 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes index.
How the world became flat -- While I was sleeping -- The ten forces that flattened the world -- The triple convergence -- The great sorting out -- America and the flat world -- America and free trade -- The untouchables -- The right stuff -- The quiet crisis -- This is not a test -- Developing countries and the flat world -- The Virgin of Guadalupe -- Companies and the flat world -- How companies cope -- Geopolitics and the flat world -- The unflattering world -- Globalization of the local -- The Dell theory of conflict prevention -- Conclusion: imagination -- 11/9 versus 9/11.
0374292795 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9780374292799
2006003748
Diffusion of innovations.
Information society.
Globalization--Economic aspects.
Globalization--Social aspects.
Innovations--Diffusion.
Societe informatisee.
Mondialisation.
Mondialisation--Aspect social.
330.90511 Fri 9
The world is flat : a brief history of the twenty-first century / Thomas L. Friedman. - 1st updated and expanded ed. - New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006. - viii, 593 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes index.
How the world became flat -- While I was sleeping -- The ten forces that flattened the world -- The triple convergence -- The great sorting out -- America and the flat world -- America and free trade -- The untouchables -- The right stuff -- The quiet crisis -- This is not a test -- Developing countries and the flat world -- The Virgin of Guadalupe -- Companies and the flat world -- How companies cope -- Geopolitics and the flat world -- The unflattering world -- Globalization of the local -- The Dell theory of conflict prevention -- Conclusion: imagination -- 11/9 versus 9/11.
0374292795 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9780374292799
2006003748
Diffusion of innovations.
Information society.
Globalization--Economic aspects.
Globalization--Social aspects.
Innovations--Diffusion.
Societe informatisee.
Mondialisation.
Mondialisation--Aspect social.
330.90511 Fri 9