Friedman, Thomas L. - The World is Flat 3.0; A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century (Picador; 2007)
A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
Library of Congress Control Number: 2007929112
ISBN-13: 978-0-312-42507-4
ISBN-10: 0-312-42507-4
Introduction to the Paperback Edition I ix
How the World Became Flat
One: While I Was Sleeping / 3
Two: The Ten Forces That Flattened the World / 51
Flattener#l. 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. T h e Steroids
Three: The Triple Convergence / 200
Four: The Great Sorting Out / 233
America and the Flat World
Five: America and Free Trade / 263
Six: The Untouchables / 278
Seven: The Right Stuff / 308
Eight: The Quiet Crisis / 337
Nine: This Is Not a Test / 374
V l l l CONTENTS
Developing Countries and the Flat World
Ten: T h e Virgin of Guadalupe / 403
Companies and the Flat World
Eleven: How Companies Cope / 441
You and the Flat World
Twelve: Globalization of the Local / 477
Thirteen: If It's Not Happening, It's Because
You're Not Doing It / 489
Fourteen: What Happens When We All Have Dog's Hearing? / 515
Geopolitics and the Flat World
Fifteen: The Unflat World / 533
Sixteen: The Dell Theory of Conflict Prevention / 580
Conclusion: Imagination
Seventeen: 11/9 Versus 9/11 / 607
Acknowledgments I 637
Index I 641
