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Thomas L. Friedman, The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century, New York: Picador, 2007

In this bright publication, an award-winning "New York Times" columnist interprets how the flattening--i.e., connectedness--of the world occurred at the dawn of the 21st 100 years, what it entails to the international finances, and how authorities and societies should adapt.

"One assess of a large publication is that it makes you glimpse things in a new way, and Mr. Friedman absolutely does well in that goal," the Nobel laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz composed in "The New York Times "reviewing "The World Is Flat "in 2005. In this new version, Thomas L. Friedman encompasses new tales and insights to assist us realise the flattening of the world. Weaving new data into his general thesis, and responding the inquiries he has been most often inquired by parents over the homeland, this third version furthermore encompasses two new chapters--on how to be a political activist and communal entrepreneur in a flat world; and on the more worrying inquiry of how to organise our status and privacy in a world where we are all evolving publishers and public figures.

"The World Is Flat 3.0" is an absolutely crucial revise on globalization, its possibilities for one-by-one empowerment, its achievements at raising millions out of scarcity, and its drawbacks--environmental, communal, and political, powerfully lit up by the Pulitzer Prize--winning scribe of "The Lexus and the Olive Tree."

Thomas L Friedman has assisted to The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century as an author. Thomas L. Friedman has won the Pulitzer Prize three times for his work at "The New York Times. "He is the scribe of two other bestselling publications, From Beirut to Jerusalem," "winner of the National Book Award, and The Lexus and the Olive Tree: ...