Sách ngoại văn nổi tiếng

FIRST ANCHOR BOOKS EDITION, APRIL 2000 Copyright@1999, 2000 by Thomas L. Friedman All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Anchor Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. Originally published in somewhat different font in hardcover in the United States by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC, New York, in 1999, and published here by arrangement with Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC. Anchor Books and the Anchor colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc. Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to reprint previously published material: Excerpts from "Foreign Friends" (The Economist, Jan. 8, 2000). Copyright @2000 The Economist Newspaper Group, Inc. Reprinted by permission. Further reproduction prohibited. www.economist.com. Excerpt from the musical Ragtime, lyrics by Lynn Ahrens. Copyright @ by Hillsdale Music, Inc., and Penn and Perseverance, Inc. Reprinted by permission. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Friedman, Thomas L. The Lexus and the olive tree / by Thomas L. Friedman -1st Anchor Books ed. p. cm. Originally published: New York: Farrar, Straus Giroux, @ 1999. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-385-49934-5 International economic relations. 2. Free trade. 3. Capitalism-Social aspects. 4. Technological innovations--Economic aspects. 5. Technological innovations--Social aspects. 6. Intercultural communication. 7. United States-Foreign economic relations. 8. Globalization I. Title. Book design by Bob Bull www.anchorbooks.com Printed in Canada 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN The Lexus and the Olive Tree Thomas L. Friedman is one of America`s leading interpreters of world affairs. Born in Minneapolis in 1953, he was educated at Brandeis University and St. Anthony`s College, Oxford. His first book, From Beirut to Jerusalem, won the National Book Award in 1988. Mr. Friedman has also won two Pulitzer Prizes for his reporting for The New York Times as bureau chief in Beirut and in Jerusalem. He lives in Bethesda, Maryland, with his wife, Ann, and their daughters, Orly and Natalie. Contents Foreword to the Anchor Edition ix Opening Scene: The World Is Ten Years Old xi Part One: Seeing the System 1. The New System 3 2. Information Arbitrage 17 3. The Lexus and the Olive Tree 29 4. …And the Walls Came Tumbling Down 44 5. Microchip Immune Deficiency 73 6. The Golden Straitjacket 101 7. The Electronic Herd 112 Part Two: Plugging into the System 8. DOScapital 6.0 145 9. Globalution 167 10. Shapers, Adapters and Other New Ways of Thinking About Power 194 11. Buy Taiwan, Hold Italy, Sell France 212 12. The Golden Arches Theory of Conflict Prevention 248 13. Demolition Man 276 14. Winners Take All 306 Part Three: The Backlash Against the System 15. The Backlash 327 16. The Groundswell 348 Part Four: America and the System 17. Rational Exuberance 367 18. Revolution Is U.S. 379 19. If You Want to Speak to a Human Being, Press 1 406 20. There Is a Way Forward 434 Acknowledgments 477 Index 480 ... - tailieumienphi.vn