The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century

Thomas L. Friedman

Picador, Jul 24, 2007 - Social Science - 672 pages

This Independence Day edition of The World is Flat 3.0 includes an an exclusive preview of That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back, by Thomas L. Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum, on sale September 5th, 2011.

A New Edition of the Phenomenal #1 Bestseller

"One mark of a great book is that it makes you see things in a new way, and Mr. Friedman certainly succeeds in that goal," the Nobel laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz wrote in The New York Times reviewing The World Is Flat in 2005. In this new edition, Thomas L. Friedman includes fresh stories and insights to help us understand the flattening of the world. Weaving new information into his overall thesis, and answering the questions he has been most frequently asked by parents across the country, this third edition also includes two new chapters--on how to be a political activist and social entrepreneur in a flat world; and on the more troubling question of how to manage our reputations and privacy in a world where we are all becoming publishers and public figures.

The World Is Flat 3.0 is an essential update on globalization, its opportunities for individual empowerment, its achievements at lifting millions out of poverty, and its drawbacks--environmental, social, and political, powerfully illuminated by the Pulitzer Prize--winning author of The Lexus and the Olive Tree.

What people are saying

Good read but outdated now.

User Review  - marsattacks28 - Overstock.com

At the time the book came out it was very intriguing. Many of the predictions contained within came true faster than I couldve imagined. As a result the book is quite dated now. But still a great take on the interconnectedness of people and businesses on our planet.

great book and arrived on time.

User Review  - baggs - Overstock.com

great book and arrived on time.

Contents

• While I Was Sleeping: 3
• The Ten Forces That Flattened the World: 51
• The Triple Convergence: 200
• The Great Sorting Out: 233
• America and the Flat World: 261
• Developing Countries and the Flat World: 401
• Companies and the Flat World: 439
• You and the Flat World: 475
• Geopolitics and the Flat World: 531
• Imagination: 605
• Acknowledgments: 637
• Index: 641

About the author

Thomas L. Friedman has won the Pulitzer Prize three times for his work at The New York Times, where he serves as the foreign affairs columnist. He is the author of three previous books, all of them bestsellers: From Beirut to Jerusalem, winner of the National Book Award for nonfiction; The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization; and Longitudes and Attitudes: Exploring the World After September 11. In 2005 The World Is Flat was given the first Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award, and Friedman was named one of America's Best Leaders by U.S. News & World Report. He lives in Bethesda, Maryland, with his family.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
• Author: Thomas L. Friedman
• Edition: 3
• Publisher: Picador, 2007
• ISBN: 1429923075, 9781429923071
• Length: 672 pages
• Subjects: Political Science / Globalization; Social Science / Human Geography