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Globalization, Interconnectedness, and Wal-Mart the Bully - The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First CenturyL. Friedman Thomas New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2005; 488 pages, $27.30 hardcover, ISBN 0-374-29288-4

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 January 2015

Denis Collins
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Abstract

Assume that I am starting a business in Madison, Wisconsin, producing desks for professors,” I tell my students at the beginning of a lecture about Marxism. “I ask the Business School dean how much he paid for his current inventory of worn-out desks. The actual price was $500. How much does he tell me?”

“Four hundred fifty dollars!” a student shouts from the back of the room.

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Review Article
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Business Ethics Quarterly , Volume 16 , Issue 2 , April 2006 , pp. 289 - 304
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Copyright © Society for Business Ethics 2006

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