The Lexus And The Olive Tree
BY: Julianna lopez
How would I summarize this?
Who was Thomas Friedman?
What did he do and, what is the book about?
- In the first 1- 11 chapters he discuses about
- Chap 1- The New System ( to summarize he discuses about "the Cold War system" and "the globalization system," as an international system, the Cold War had its own structure of power: the balance between the United States and the U.S.S.R. The Cold War had its own rules: in foreign affair would influence the economics, for the less developed countries and focus on nurturing their own national industries, developing countries on export-led growth, communist countries on Autarky, and Western economies on regulated trade .
- Chap 11-he talks about how he was becoming smarter on how to adapt to determining critical country company clout in the internet age.
- In this book Thomas Friedman is a well know writer had decided to travel four corners of the world to interview people about all walks of contemporary life .
- Friedman also describes on how the global marketplace and, the old geographic and geopolitical boundaries.
- Not only does Friedman talks about the importance that the ancient world had on us but how the us as humans need to ensure a better future for the human race.
QUESTIONS
- Who was Thomas Friedman (free-man), and what did he do?
- what were chapter 1and 11 about?
- What is this book talk about?