TY - BOOK AU - Friedman, Thomas L. TI - The lexus and the olive tree SN - 9780374192037 U1 - 320 PY - 2000/// CY - London PB - Harper Coollins Publishers KW - International economic relations KW - Free trade KW - Technological innovations--Economic aspects KW - Intercultural communication KW - Technological innovations--Social aspects N1 - 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 ER -