Book description
Chronicles the damage Thomas Friedman's flat wrong, "Flat
Earth" ideas have caused to the American economy
As Martin Sieff convincingly argues, Thomas Friedman's prescriptions
have played a major role in causing America's economic decline, yet
many executives and politicians, including President Obama, still look
to him as their guru. Sieff exposes Friedman fallacies on the nature
of globalization, the information technology revolution, political
paralysis in Washington, and energy consumption. He documents how
China is investing far more in locking up the world's oil and gas
reserves than in developing the ineffective green technologies
Friedman claims they love. He exposes Friedman's most acclaimed ideas
as retreads of naïve fantasies widely believed and exposed as useless
a century ago.
- Convincingly refutes Thomas Friedman's fantasies and many
fallacies in his best-selling books, The World Is Flat and
That Used to Be Us, and presents a radically different
vision and road map for America's economy and its future
- Offers a practical trade and energy strategy to restore American
prosperity and industrial strength in the twenty-first century
- Explains why America's economy will soon depend on producing
low-carbon footprint natural gas, reviving its manufacturing sector,
and protecting its industry from unfair foreign competition and
artificially manipulated exchange rates
- Written by veteran journalist Martin Sieff, a regular contributor
to FoxNews. com and Chief Global Analyst at The Globalist Research
Center
Martin Sieff is a columnist at FoxNews. com, Chief Global Analyst
at The Globalist Research Center, and Editor-at-Large at The
Globalist. A former Managing Editor, International Affairs for United
Press International, he is the author of The Politically Incorrect
Guide to the Middle East and Shifting Superpowers: The New and
Emerging Relationship between the United States, China, and India.
