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...that made the world a little smaller will be made a lot louder. While Amtrak trains have solved this problem by designating certain cars as quiet cars, where cell phones cannot be used, this solution does not apply to the T. T riders are often only in transit for ten minutes and can only enter the section of the train that stops in front of them...
...important, Friedman’s insistence upon pithy labels for the book’s central analytic concepts makes the ideas less understandable. He offers an involved theory of how the current form of globalization, with its level playing field and widely accessible avenues for international commercial competition, arose. Ten “flatteners,” the story goes, constitute the forces primarily responsible for leveling the playing field. Most of these are business practices defined in the peculiar language of management consultants—outsourcing, insourcing, open-sourcing, supply-chaining—but the list also includes...
...complication and opacity ensues when Friedman discusses the process by which these forces shape the world: the fantastically muddled “triple convergence.” First, around the year 2000, the ten flatteners “started to converge and work together,” increasing global access to networks of collaboration and competition and giving rise to new business practices that sought to exploit the change. Second, the “new playing field for doing business” converged with the business practices themselves. Third, the populations of China, India, and the former USSR, granted their...
...After ten years on the Department of Economics faculty at Princeton, Bernanke became department chair. He held the position for five years, which Blinder says is an unusually long term for Princeton’s economics department...
According to the UC bylaws, a petition with ten signatures and a vote of two-thirds of the UC is needed to impeach a member. Greenfield said that attaining a two-thirds majority would be nearly impossible in the case of most members, and in particular Nichols, who Greenfield said has a lot of friends...