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The Lexus and The Olive Tree
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The Lexus and The Olive Tree (2000) (edit title/settings)

Understanding Globalization

by Thomas L. Friedman (Author) (edit contributors)

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From one of our most perceptive commentators and winner of the National Book Award, a comprehensive look at the new world of globalization, the international system that, more than anything else, is shaping world affairs today. As the Foreign Affairs columnist for The New York Times , Thomas... read more

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  • “Without question, the most important trampoline is lifelong learning”
    Thomas Friedman
  • “In your career, knowledge is like a milk.It has a shelf life stamped right on the carton. The shell life of a degree in engineering is about three years. If you're not replacing everything you know by then, your career is going to turn sour so fast”
    Louis Ross, Chief Technology Officer Ford Motor Co
  • “In the knowledge economy, you don't EARN a living, you LEARN a living”
    Jim Botkin & Stand Davis (from the book The Monster Under the Bed)
  • “There is a danger that as a result of the Internetting of society, the triumph of all this technology in our lives, and globalization uber Alles, people will wake up one morning and realize that they don't interact with anyone except through a computer. When this is happens, people will really become vulnerable to those preachers and New Age religious fantasies that come along and promise to reconnect us to our bodies, our souls and the olive tree in us all. this is when you will start to see truly crazy revolts against monotony and standardization - people being different for the sake of being different, but not on the basis of any real historical memory, roots or traditions.”
    Thomas
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  • Those countries that are most willing to let capitalism quickly destroy inefficient companies, so that money can be freed up and directed to more innovative ones, will thrive in the era of globalization. Those which rely on their governments to protect them from such creative destruction will fall behind in this era.
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  • The third balance that you have to pay attention to in the globalization system—the one that is really the newest of all—is the balance between individuals and nation-states.
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  • What blew away all these walls were three fundamental changes—changes in how we communicate, how we invest and how we learn about the world.
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  • Globalization is not just some economic fad, and it is not just a passing trend. It is an international system—the dominant international system that replaced the Cold War system after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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  • The globalization system is a bit different. It also has one overarching feature—integration.
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  • The second balance in the globalization system is between nation-states and global markets. These global markets are made up of millions of investors moving money around the world with the click of a mouse. I call them “the Electronic Herd,” and this herd gathers in key global financial centers, such as Wall Street, Hong Kong, London and Frankfurt, which I call “the Supermarkets.”
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  • With a complex nonlinear system you have to break it up into pieces and then study each aspect, and then study the very strong interaction between them all. Only this way can you describe the whole system.”
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  • It struck me then that the Lexus and the olive tree were actually pretty good symbols of this post–Cold War era: half the world seemed to be emerging from the Cold War intent on building a better Lexus, dedicated to modernizing, streamlining and privatizing their economies in order to thrive in the system of globalization. And half of the world—sometimes half the same country, sometimes half the same person—was still caught up in the fight over who owns which olive tree.
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  • T he challenge in this era of globalization—for countries and individuals—is to find a healthy balance between preserving a sense of identity, home and community and doing what it takes to survive within the globalization system.
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  • The slow, fixed, divided Cold War system that had dominated international affairs since 1945 had been firmly replaced by a new, very greased, interconnected system called globalization.
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Foreword to This Edition
Opening Scene: The World Is Ten Years Old
Part One: Seeing the System
1. The New System
2. Information Arbitrage
3. The Lexus and The Olive Tree
4. ...And the Walls Came Tumbling Down
5. Microchip Immune Deficiency
6. The Golden Straitjacket
7. The Electronic Herd
Part Two: Plugging into the System
8. DOScapital 6.0
9. Globalution
10. Shapers, Adapters and Other New Ways of Thinking About Power
11. Buy Taiwan, Hold Italy, Sell France
12. The Golden Arches Theory of Conflict Prevention
13. Demolition Man
14. Winners Take All
Part Three: The Backlash Against the System
15. The Backlash
16. The Groundswell
Part Four: America and the System
17. Rational Exuberance
18. Revolution Is U.S.
19. If You Want to Speak to a Human Being, Press 1
20. There is a Way Forward
Acknowledgment
Index

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  1. Thomas L. Friedman (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Anchor
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2000
ISBN: 0385499345
Page Count: 490

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