Critical Review Of Friedman's "The World Is Flat"
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5 pages in length. Despite the immediate implication of Friedman's (2006) title to the physical flatness of planet Earth, The World is Flat provides a comprehensive, unabashed chronicling of what has transpired across the globe to have leveled the economic and political playing field where countries like China have been summarily equalized with power nations like the United States. Friedman (2006), whose perspective of this ever-growing leveled playing field incorporates ten specific factors that collectively created such a precedent-setting phenomenon, duly points out the viability for more people from all over the world to "collaborate and compete in real time with more people on more different kinds of work from more different corners of the planet and on a more equal footing" (p. 8), yet he is not remiss to acknowledge how something so monumental in man's timeline as globalization is without the inherent challenges and struggles associated with such concepts as outsourcing, the World Wide Web and offshoring. No other sources cited.
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