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

By: Friedman, Thomas L.
Publisher: London : New York : Allen Lane ; Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005Description: viii, 488 p. ; 25 cm.ISBN: 0713998784 (hbk.); 0374292884 (hbk.); 9780374292881.Subject(s): Information society | Diffusion of innovations | Globalization -- Social aspects | Globalization -- Economic aspectsDDC classification: 303.4833
Contents:
How the world become 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. Open-sourcing. - 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 quiet crisis. 8. This is not a test. -- Developing countries and the flat world. 9. The Virgin of Guadalupe. - Companies and the flat world. 10. How companies cope. - Geopolitics and the flat world. 11. The unflat world. 12. The Dell theory of conflict prevention. - Conclusion: Imagination. 13. 11/9 versus 9/11. - Acknowledgments. - Index.
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The subtitle for the book published in New York is "A brief history of the twenty-first century"

How the world become 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. Open-sourcing. - 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 quiet crisis. 8. This is not a test. -- Developing countries and the flat world. 9. The Virgin of Guadalupe. - Companies and the flat world. 10. How companies cope. - Geopolitics and the flat world. 11. The unflat world. 12. The Dell theory of conflict prevention. - Conclusion: Imagination. 13. 11/9 versus 9/11. - Acknowledgments. - Index.