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"The World Is Flat - Thomas Friedman"

A terrible book. Looks like he made a talk he gave or a paper into a book. Says nothing in several hundred pages that he could not say in a few. Many things are actually wrong. If the world would be flat, geopolitics would be meaningless.

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If the world would be flat, geopolitics would be meaningless.

I think it's pretty clear that it's a metaphor and that qualifiers apply. Nonetheless, the book inspired me and I gained a new appreciation for a lot of things from reading it. For all its flaws, I would advocate reading it to everyone. shrug

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