The World Is Flat
A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century
By Thomas L. Friedman and Oliver Wyman
"The World Is Flat" is published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2005 - New York, it has 488 pages and the language of the book is English.
“The World Is Flat” Metadata:
- Title: The World Is Flat
- Authors: Thomas L. FriedmanOliver Wyman
- Language: English
- Number of Pages: 488
- Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Publish Date: 2005
- Publish Location: New York
“The World Is Flat” Subjects and Themes:
- Subjects: ➤ Diffusion of innovations - Social aspects - Globalization - Economic aspects - Information society - Social aspects of Globalization - Economic aspects of Globalization - politics - world economics - Diffusion - Zukunft - Whitman College - Société informatisée - Aspect social - Innovations - Futurologie - Globalisierung - Mondialisation - Class of 1953 - Memorial bookplates - Aspects économiques - Société de l'information - Pays développés - Internet - Pays en développement - Technologies de l'information et de la communication - Aspects sociaux - Internationale politiek - Sociaal-economische aspecten - Géopolitique - New Economy - Internationale orde - Diffusion des innovations - Internationalisatie - Diffusion of Innovation - 89.70 international relations: general - Information Dissemination - Large type books - Politieke aspecten - Economische aspecten - Mudança social (motivos) - Inovações tecnológicas - Sociedade da informação - Globalização (aspectos socioeconômicos) - Globalization--economic aspects - Globalization--social aspects - Hm846 .f74 2007 - Hm 846 f734 2007 - 303.48/33 - Economics - Social sciences - Climatic changes - Environmental aspects - Global warming - Environmental protection - Environmental policy - Green movement - Population - Energy policy
- Places: ➤ Afghanistan - Africa - Australia - China - Europe - India - Japan - Mexico - Middle East - Russia - Soviet Union - USA - United States
- Time: ➤ Modern Times - from 1970's to the 21st Century
Edition Specifications:
- Format: Hardcover
- Dimensions: 24 x x centimeters
- Pagination: viii, 488 p. ;
Edition Identifiers:
- The Open Library ID: OL7423401M - OL3740416W
- Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) ID: 57202171
- Library of Congress Control Number (LCCN): 2004028685
- ISBN-13: 9780374292881
- ISBN-10: 0374292884
- All ISBNs: 0374292884 - 9780374292881
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"The World Is Flat" Table Of Contents:
- 1- pt. [1]: How the world became flat. While I was sleeping
- 2- 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)
- 3- The triple convergence
- 4- The great sorting-out.
- 5- pt. [2]: America and the flat world. America and free trade (is Ricardo still right?)
- 6- The untouchables
- 7- The quiet crisis
- 8- This is not a test.
- 9- pt. [3] Developing countries and the flat world. The virgin of Guadalupe.
- 10- pt. [4] Companies and the flat world. How companies cope.
- 11- pt. [5] Geopolitics and the flat world. The unflat world
- 12- The Dell theory of conflict prevention.
- 13- Conclusion. Imagination: 11/9 versus 9/11.
Snippets and Summary:
No one ever gave me directions like this on a golf course before: "Aim at either Microsoft or IBM."
"The World Is Flat" Description:
The Open Library:
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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