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    Summary and Analysis of The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century: Based on the Book by Thomas L. Friedman
    Summary and Analysis of The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century: Based on the Book by Thomas L. Friedman
    Summary and Analysis of The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century: Based on the Book by Thomas L. Friedman
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    Summary and Analysis of The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century: Based on the Book by Thomas L. Friedman

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    So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century tells you what you need to know—before or after you read Thomas L. Friedman ’s book.

    Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader. 
     
    This short summary and analysis of The World Is Flat 3.0 by Thomas L. Friedman includes:
    • Historical context
    • Chapter-by-chapter summaries
    • Detailed timeline of important events
    • Important quotes
    • Fascinating trivia
    • Supporting material to enhance your understanding of the original work
     
    About The World Is Flat 3.0 by Thomas L. Friedman:
     
    Pulitzer Prize–winning author Thomas L. Friedman imagines himself a modern-day Columbus, exploring a new world created by a global economy. He travels from Bangalore to Bentonville, interviewing key figures in the rise of globalization, outsourcing, offshoring, and supply chain management.
     
    Like great explorers before him, Friedman spins tales of vast wealth and freedoms made possible by advances in technology. But here, too, there be dragons: foreign competition, educational failures, governmental incompetence, and the specter of 9/11 and terrorism are the ugly flip side of crowd-sourced technological wonders.
     
    The World Is Flat is an essential work for anyone interested in the impact of globalization.
     
    The summary and analysis in this ebook are intended to complement your reading experience and bring you closer to a great work of nonfiction.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateFeb 14, 2017
    ISBN9781504044103
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      Summary and Analysis of The World Is Flat 3.0 - Worth Books

      Contents

      Context

      Overview

      Summary

      Timeline

      Cast of Characters

      Direct Quotes and Analysis

      Trivia

      What’s That Word?

      Critical Response

      About Thomas L. Friedman

      For Your Information

      Bibliography

      Copyright

      Context

      Thomas L. Friedman, a three-time Pulitzer Prize–winning New York Times columnist, is the author of the bestseller The Lexus and the Olive Tree, a book that examined globalization in the 1990s. The discussion spawned by that book spurred him to write The World Is Flat, which expands on the concepts introduced in The Lexus and the Olive Tree, deepening the reader’s understanding of the multiple forces driving our increasingly global economy.

      Friedman spent time traveling the world and talking to business leaders, resulting in The World Is Flat. Not content to simply let the book age, he updated it with new material in 2006, incorporating the rapid technological changes since its initial publication. For instance, uploading—individuals putting their own content on the Web—had become so much more of a flattener that he felt it necessary to add a fair amount of content to sections that discussed it.

      In August 2007, The World Is Flat 3.0 was published. Once again, Friedman added new material to keep up with the evolving world. The most recent (as of this writing) version includes information on how best to educate children for the globalized flat world.

      Overview

      Two world events bookended a quiet revolution: the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989, and the fall of the World Trade Center towers in New York City on September 11, 2001: 11/9 and 9/11.

      Between these events, the world saw unprecedented growth in connectivity, aided by leaps forward in technology. We are richer than ever before. Tangled supply chains make us more peaceful—nations in business together are less likely to go to war with one another. Even the huge losses of the dot-com bubble paid off in the form of outsourcing and offshore labor. Politically and culturally retooled former Communist economies like India and China emerged to aggressively court foreign investment. Prices of goods and services fell.

      But not everyone was happy

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