TY  - BOOK
AU  - Friedman, Thomas L
TI  - The world is flat : : the globalized world in the twenty-first century 
SN  - 9780141022727 (pbk.)
U1  - 330 FRI 
PY  - 2006///
CY  - London
PB  - Penguin Books
KW  - Economics
KW  - Diffusion of Innovation
KW  - Globalization Economic aspects
KW  - Globalization Social aspects
KW  - Information society
KW  - Innovations Diffusion
N1  - Introduction to the Updated and Expanded Edition		ix	
How the World Became Flat	
	One: While I Was Sleeping
		3	(47)
	Two: The Ten Forces That Flattened the World
		50	(151)
	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
		201	(33)
	Four: The Great Sorting Out
		234	(27)
America and the Flat World	
	Five: America and Free Trade
		261	(15)
	Six: The Untouchables
		276	(25)
	Seven: The Right Stuff
		301	(22)
	Eight: The Quiet Crisis
		323	(37)
	Nine: This Is Not a Test
		360	(33)
Developing Countries and the Flat World	
	Ten: The Virgin of Guadalupe
		393	(32)
Companies and the Flat World	
	Eleven: How Companies Cope
		425	(32)
Geopolitics and the Flat World	
	Twelve: The Unflat World
		457	(48)
	Thirteen: Globalization of the Local
		505	(10)
	Fourteen: The Dell Theory of Conflict Prevention
		515	(28)
Conclusion: Imagination	
	Fifteen: 11/9 Versus 9/11
		543	(24)
Acknowledgments		567	(4)
Index		571	
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