The Lexus and the Olive Tree
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.31 (656 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0374192030 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 289 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-06-17 |
| Language | : | English |
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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. 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. As Friedman sees it, the concept, at first glance, is all about American hegemony, about Disneyfication of all corners of the earth. 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. But the
"Globalization described in terms anyone can understand" according to Arthur R. Silen. The globalization of the world's economy is a phenomenon of the world after the demise of the Soviet Union. Friedman gives a brilliant tour de force of the causes and results of worldwide financial markets acting in accordance with their own perceived self-interest, bestowing wealth and new investment in countries based upon their potential to return a profit to investers. But he also describes what happens when the "Electronic Herd" of investors get spooked by unanticipated threats to their investments. Because cou. Must read on the systemic globalization earthquake For nearly two decades, I have considered Tom Friedman one of the savviest and shrewdest reporters on the Middle East, then foreign affairs. The Lexus and the Olive Tree establishes him as a multi-dimensional Walter Lippmann whose political/economic/social grasp of the Globalization Revolution makes him a must read for anyone who seeks to understand and capitalize on this systemic globalization earthquake. Friedman represents a rare breed of modern reporter with his mastery of both global politics and economics. For. JAMES NEE said Yes. It arrived as scheduled and I'm reading it. Yes. It arrived as scheduled and I'm reading it now. I have dyslexia, so it'll go slow. So far the text seems more dense than I expected from Friedman. JIM NEE, Santa Cruz, CA
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "From Beirut to Jerusalem" offers a brilliant investigation of globalization, the most significant socioeconomic trend in the world today, and how it is affecting everything we do--economically, politically, and culturally--abroad and at home.