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summarizing the arguments put forward in Friedman

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Freidman 's The World is Flat

The central idea in Thomas Friedman 's book The World is Flat is that globalization is leveling things around the world , especially in terms of commerce and business

According to Friedman globalization has changed core economic concepts ' The concepts that he is referring to include doing business and outsourcing of labor . One of the biggest things we can understand about outsourcing in current times is every time we call a credit card company or any other type of company and someone with

a very foreign accent answers . American companies outsource call centers to India where the labor is cheaper

There are ten flatteners that Friedman views as flatteners . These include

Collapse of the Berlin Wall , Netscape , workflow software , uploading outsourcing , off shoring , supply-chaining , in sourcing , informing and personal digital devices

The Collapse of the Berlin Wall opened up the world because it represented the ending of the Cold War and opened up that area of the world . Netscape along with the World Wide Web open that internet up to everyday people and not just the technologically savvy . Workflow software made machines able to communicate with each other therefore cutting out humans and making communication even easier . Uploading makes it possible for multiple people from anywhere able to collaborate and work on projects together such as on Google documents . Outsourcing has given companies the ability to send work to anywhere in the world Of shoring is an even stronger form of outsourcing , it...

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