Ebook: The world is flat: a brief history of the twenty-first century
Author: Friedman Thomas L.
- Tags: Diffusion of innovations, Information society, Globalization, Economic aspects, Globalization, Social aspects
- Year: 2007
- Publisher: Distributed by Holtzbrinck Publishers
- City: New York
- Edition: 1st Picador ed., Further updated and expanded, 3.0 ed.
- Language: English
- epub
In The World Is Flat, the highly-regarded New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman advances the work on globalization that made his The Lexus and the Olive Tree a bestseller. Claiming that the world is now at an important historical point--as important as the changes brought by the discoveries by Columbus or by the Industrial Revolution--Friedman analyzes the events, inventions, and business practices that have Read more...
Abstract: In The World Is Flat, the highly-regarded New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman advances the work on globalization that made his The Lexus and the Olive Tree a bestseller. Claiming that the world is now at an important historical point--as important as the changes brought by the discoveries by Columbus or by the Industrial Revolution--Friedman analyzes the events, inventions, and business practices that have resulted in a changed world, one he calls Globalization 3.0