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  1. With vivid stories and a set of original terms and concepts, Friedman shows us how to see this new system. He dramatizes the conflict of “the Lexus and the olive tree” – the tension between the globalization system and ancient forces of culture, geography, tradition, and community.

  2. Longitudes and Attitudes. The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization is a 1999 book by Thomas L. Friedman that posits that the world is currently undergoing two struggles: the drive for prosperity and development, symbolized by the Lexus LS, and the desire to retain identity and traditions, symbolized by the olive tree .

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  3. Aug 21, 2012 · The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization. Paperback – August 21, 2012. In this vivid portrait of the new business world, Thomas L. Friedman shows how technology, capital, and information are transforming the global marketplace, leveling old geographic and geopolitical boundaries.

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  5. Dec 3, 2010 · Contributor. Internet Archive. Language. English. Includes index. Globalization is not just a phenomenon and not just a passing trend. It is the international system that replaced the Cold War system, according to Thomas L. Friedman, Foreign Affairs columnist for The New York Times.

  6. The Lexus and the Olive Tree. By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN. Farrar Straus Giroux. Read the Review. Tourist with an Attitude. At the wonderful science museum in Barcelona, I saw an exhibit that beautifully illustrated "chaos." A nonlinear version of a pendulum was set up so that the visitor could hold the bob and start out in a chosen position and with ...

  7. Jan 1, 2001 · The Lexus and the Olive Tree. Thomas L. Friedman. 3.60. 8,442ratings478reviews. In The Lexus and the Olive Tree, Thomas L. Friedman, the Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign affairs columnist for The New York Times, offers an engrossing look at the new international system that is transforming world affairs today.

  8. Finding the proper balance between the Lexus and the olive tree is the great drama of he globalization era, and the ultimate theme of Friedman's challenging, provocative...

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