The World Is Flat: Updated and Expanded (Unabridged)
Location: KALAMAZOO, MI
Description Audio Length: 24 hours and 11 min. Average Customer Rating: Version: Unabridged "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. With his inimitable ability to translate complex foreign policy and economic issues, Friedman brilliantly demystifies the new flat world for listeners, allowing them to make sense of the advances in technology and communications that are creating an explosion of wealth in India and China, and challenging the rest of us to run even faster just to stay in place. For this updated and expanded edition, Friedman has provided more than five hours of new reporting and commentary, bringing fresh stories and insights to help us understand the flattening of the world. New material includes: The reasons why the flattening of the world "will be seen in time as one of those fundamental shifts or inflection points, like Gutenberg's invention of the printing press, the rise of the nation-state, or the Industrial Revolution" A mapping of the New Middle, the places and spaces in the flat world where middle-class jobs will be found, and portraits of the character types who will find success as New Middlers An account of the qualities American parents and teachers need to cultivate in young people so that they will be able to thrive in the flat world An account of the "globalization of the local": how the flattening of the world is actually strengthening local and regional identities rather than homogenizing the world More than ever, The World is Flat is an essential update on globalization, its successes and discontents, powerfully illuminated by one of our most respected journalists.
