The world is flat : a brief history of the twenty-first century /
Thomas L. Friedman.
- 1st updated and expanded ed.
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006.
- viii, 593 p ; 24 cm.
Includes index.
While I was sleeping -- The ten forces that flattened the world -- The triple convergence -- The great sorting out -- America and free trade -- The untouchables -- The right stuff -- The quiet crisis -- This is not a test -- The Virgin of Guadalupe -- How companies cope -- The unflat world -- Globalization of the local -- The Dell theory of conflict prevention.
Contains an overview of the global political and economic change since the turn of the twenty-first century, discussing the rapid developments in technologies that has allowed India and China to become part of a growing supply chain of manufacturing impacting global markets.