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

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Picador/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007Edition: First Picador editionDescription: x, 660 pagesContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780312425074
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 303.4833
Contents:
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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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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