The lexus and the olive tree/
Thomas L. Friedman
- London: Harper Coollins Publishers, 2000.
- xxii, 490 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Opening scene, The world is ten years old -- Seeing the system: New system -- Information arbitrage -- Lexus and the olive tree -- ... And the walls came tumbling down -- Microchip immune deficiency -- Golden straitjacket -- Electronic herd -- Plugging into the system: DOScapital 6.0 -- Globalution -- Shapers, adapters and other new ways of thinking about power -- Buy Taiwan, hold Italy, sell France -- Golden arches theory of conflict prevention -- Demolition man -- Winners take all -- Backlash against the system: Backlash -- Groundswell -- America and the system: Rational exuberance -- Revolution is U.S. -- If you want to speak to a human being, press 1 -- There is a way forward.
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