The world is flat : a brief history of the twenty-first century / Thomas L. Friedman
By: Friedman, Thomas L [author].
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BookPublisher: New York : Picador/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007Edition: First Picador edition.Description: x, 660 pages.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780312425074.Subject(s): Diffusion of innovations | Information society | Globalization -- Economic aspects | Globalization -- Social aspects| Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| Book | Main Library Reference Section | Circulation | C 303.4833 F911w 2007 (Browse shelf) | Available | 123841d |
Includes index.
How the world became flat
One. While I was sleeping
Two. The ten forces that flattened the world
Flattener #1. 11/9/89
Flattener #2. 8/9/95
Flattener #3. Work flow software
Flattener #4. Uploading
Flattener #5. Outsourcing
Flattener #6. Offshoring
Flattener #7. Supply-chaining
Flattener #8. Insourcing
Flattener #9. In-forming
Flattener #10. The steroids
Three. The triple convergence
Four. The great sorting out
America and the flat world
Five. America and free trade
Six. The untouchables
Seven. The right stuff
Eight. The quiet crisis
Nine. This is not a test
Developing countries and the flat world
Ten. The virgin of Guadalupe
Companies and the flat world
Eleven. How companies cope
You and the flat world
Twelve. Globalization of the local
Thirteen. If it's not happening, it's because you're not doing it
Fourteen. What happens when we all have dog's hearing?
Geopolitics and the flat world
Fifteen. The unflat world
Sixteen. The Dell theory of conflict prevention
Conclusion : imagination
Seventeen. 11/9 versus 9/11
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