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One day in 1992, Thomas Friedman toured a Lexus factory in Japan and marveled at the robots that put the luxury cars together. That evening, as he ate sushi on a Japanese bullet train, he read a story about yet another Middle East squabble between Palestinians and Israelis. And it hit him: Half the world was lusting after those Lexuses, or at least the brilliant technology that made them possible, and the other half was fighting over who owned which olive tree.

Friedman, the well-traveled New York Times foreign-affairs columnist, peppers The Lexus and the Olive Tree with stories that illustrate his central theme: that globalization--the Lexus--is the central organizing principle of the post-cold war world, even though many individuals and nations resist by holding onto what has traditionally mattered to them--the olive tree.

Problem is, few of us understand what exactly globalization means. As Friedman sees it, the concept, at first glance, is all about American hegemony, about Disneyfication of all corners of the earth. But the reality, thank goodness, is far more complex than that, involving international relations, global markets, and the rise of the power of individuals (Bill Gates, Osama Bin Laden) relative to the power of nations.

No one knows how all this will shake out, but The Lexus and the Olive Tree is as good an overview of this sometimes brave, sometimes fearful new world as you'll find. --Lou Schuler

The New York Times Book Review, Josef Joffe

Friedman knows how to cut through the arcana of high tech and high finance with vivid images and compelling analogies.... a delightfully readable book.

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	Economics/Finances The Lexus and the Olive Tree The Lexus and the Olive TreeFarrar, Straus and Giroux \| 1999-04-21 \| ISBN: 0374192030 \| 289 pages \| PDF \| 1,7 MBFriedman, the well-traveled New York Times foreign-affairs columnist, peppers The Lexus and the Olive Tree with stories that ill ...
	Understanding Globalization Understanding GlobalizationPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. \| ISBN: 0847683516 \| edition 1997 \| PDF \| 376 pages \| 814 КБToday "globalization" is bandied about by nearly everyone. But how many of us really understand the ...
	Economics/Finances Seeing the Elephant: Understanding Globalization from Trunk to Tail Peter Marber, "Seeing the Elephant: Understanding Globalization from Trunk to Tail" John Wiley & Sons \| 2009 \| ISBN: 0470283858 \| 420 pages \| PDF \| 2,1 MB Thanks to globalization, more countries depend on each other for trade, capital ...
	Science/Engineering Janet M. Powers - Blossoms on the Olive Tree: Israeli and Palestinian Women Working for Peace Janet M. Powers - Blossoms on the Olive Tree: Israeli and Palestinian Women Working for PeacePublisher: Praeger Publishers \| 2006-03-30 \| ISBN: 027599001X \| PDF \| 184 pages \| 2.20 MBBlossoms on the Olive Tree is an American woman's account ...
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