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The World Is Flat -A Brief History OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
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The World Is Flat -A Brief History OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY

2006 511 pages Dār al-Kutub al-ʻArabī

Written by: Thomas L. Friedman

Diffusion of innovationsSocial aspectsGlobalizationEconomic aspects

When scholars write the history of the world twenty years from now, what will they say was the most crucial development at the dawn of the 21st century--the attacks of 9/11, or the convergence of technology and events that allowed India, China, and so many other countries to become part of the global supply chain for services and manufacturing, creating an explosion of wealth in the middle classes of the world's two biggest nations, and giving them a huge new stake in the success of globalization? And with this "flattening" of the globe, has the world gotten too small and too fast for human beings and their political systems to adjust in a stable manner? Friedman explains how the flattening …

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