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
Subjects:
Table of 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