The Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist and best-selling author of The Lexus and the Olive Tree gives a bold, timely, and surprising picture of the state of globalization in the twenty-first century.
In this brilliant #1 bestseller, "the most important columnist in America today" (Walter Russell Mead, The New York Times) demystifies the brave new world for readers, allowing them to make sense of the often bewildering global scene unfolding before their eyes. With his inimitable ability to translate complex foreign policy and economic issues, Thomas L. Friedman explains how the flattening of the world happened at the dawn of the twenty-first century; what it means to countries, companies, communities, and individuals; and how governments and societies can, and must, adapt. The World Is Flat is the timely and essential update on globalization, its successes and discontents, powerfully illuminated by one of our most respected journalists.
【作者简介】
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【目录】
Introduction to the Paperback Edition
How the Worm 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?
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