Imperfections in Friedman's flat world
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| Audience/Grade: | College Freshman-Continuing Education |
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Business and Economics Engineering Management International Engineering Education Technology and Society |
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Shashi Tharoor |
| Description: | Editorial on Friedman's "Flat World" book from India. Brings up key fallacies in the book and a different perspective about the global economy and global technologies (or lack of). `My concern is with the sweeping conclusions he draws. I fear that in celebrating the flatness of his world he loses sight of more than one inconvenient hillock. Image caption: THE GREEDY CORPORATE FIGURE: Thomas L. Friedman's analysis overlooks fundamental realities that most of the world's people still wake up to. |
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| Keywords: | global economy flat world Thomas Friedman globalization |
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The World is Flat - A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century |
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The global economy concept seems to ignore the widening gap between haves and have nots. Whate role does this play in engineering education and service learning? "More serious is Friedman's seeming obliviousness to the spectres of poverty, disease, and malnutrition stalking his flat new world. He writes of three billion people entering the global market, but forgets that most of them (and indeed three billion people overall) are living under $2 a day. The threat of the combination of poverty, conflict, famine and AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa ? arguably the most elemental challenge facing humanity at the start of the 21st Century ? features nowhere in the book." |
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| Publication Date: | March 2008 |
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Free |
| Download URL: | http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/mag/2005/06/05/stories/2005060 |
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IEEE LOM Record |
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