The world is flat?; a critical analysis of the New York Times bestseller by Thomas Friedman

Reference & Research Book News, August, 2008

The world is flat?; a critical analysis of the New York Times bestseller by Thomas Friedman.

Aronica, Ronald and Mtetwa Ramdoo.

Meghan-Kiffer Press

2006

136 pages

$24.95

Paperback

HM846

These business analysts consider New York Times journalist Friedman's bestselling book dangerous because it treats globalization from the "superficial" mindset of corporate globalization. Interspersing criticism and praise for The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century (2005, 2006 editions), Aronica and Ramdoo present a premise-by-premise critique of his treatment of countries as flat, unflat, or half-flat. Their 22 prescriptions include: a U.S. competitiveness strategy for true globalization including the end of dollar hegemony, a shift from free trade to fair trade, establishing true economic unions versus asymmetric trade agreements, and worldwide education via the Internet.

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