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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Friedman, Thomas L. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London : Allen Lane , 2005
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245 1 4 |a The world is flat :   |b a brief history of the globalizad world in the twenty-first century   |c Thomas L. Friedman 
260 2 |a London :   |b Allen Lane ,   |c 2005 
300 |a viii, 488 p. ;   |c 24 cm. 
504 |a Includes index 
505 0 |a 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 
650 0 |a Diffusion of innovations 
650 0 |a Globalization   |x Economic aspects 
650 0 |a Globalization   |x Social aspects 
650 0 |a Information society 
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