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The Lexus and the Olive Tree Audiobook Summary

As the Foreign Affairs columnist for The New York Times, Thomas L. Friedman has traveled to the four corners of the globe, interviewing people from all walks of contemporary life — peasants in the Amazon rain forest, new entrepreneurs in Indonesia, Islamic students in Teheran, and the financial wizards on Wall Street and in Silicon Valley.
Now Friedman has drawn on his years on the road to produce an engrossing and original look at the new international system that, more than anything else, is shaping world affairs today: globalization.
His argument can be summarized quite simply. Globalization is not just a phenomenon and not just a passing trend. It is the international system that replaced the Cold War system. Globalization is the integration of capital, technology and information across national borders, in a way that is creating a single global market and to some degree, a global village. You cannot understand the morning news or know where to invest you money or think about where the world is going unless you understand this new system, which is influencing the domestic policies and international relations of virtually every country in the world today. And once you do understand the world as Friedman explains it, you’ll never look at it quite the same way again.
Using original terms and concepts — from “The Electronic Herd” to “DOScapital 6.0” — Friedman shows us how to see this new system. With vivid stories, he dramatizes the conflict of “The Lexus and the Olive Tree” — the tension between the globalization system and ancient forms of culture, geography, tradition and community — and spells out what we all need to do to keep this system in balance.
Finding the proper balance between the Lexus and the olive tree is the great drama of the globilization era, and the ultimate theme of Friedman’s challenging, provocative book — essential listening for all who care about how the world really works.

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The Lexus and the Olive Tree Audiobook Narrator

Thomas L. Friedman is the narrator of The Lexus and the Olive Tree audiobook that was written by Thomas L. Friedman

Thomas Loren Friedman is a political commentator and author. He is a three-time Pulitzer Prize winner who is a weekly columnist for The New York Times. He has written extensively on foreign affairs, global trade, the Middle East, globalization, and environmental issues.

About the Author(s) of The Lexus and the Olive Tree

Thomas L. Friedman is the author of The Lexus and the Olive Tree

The Lexus and the Olive Tree Full Details

Narrator Thomas L. Friedman
Length 23 hours 1 minutes
Author Thomas L. Friedman
Category
Publisher Simon & Schuster Audio
Release date April 19, 2024
ISBN 9781442368057

Subjects

The publisher of the The Lexus and the Olive Tree is Simon & Schuster Audio. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Business & Economics, Economic Conditions

Additional info

The publisher of the The Lexus and the Olive Tree is Simon & Schuster Audio. The imprint is Simon & Schuster Audio. It is supplied by Simon & Schuster Audio. The ISBN-13 is 9781442368057.

Global Availability

This book is only available in the United States.

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