在本书中，弗里德曼列举出了十股造成世界平坦化的重要力量，启发人们思考，当前的潮流，对国家、公司、团体或个人而言，到底意味着什么？这十股力量其中就包括了中国加入WTO这个重要因素。他认为，在世界变得更平坦的未来三十年之内，世界将从“卖给中国”变成“中国制造”，再到“中国设计”甚至“中国所梦想出来”。　　

Introduction to the Paperback Edition / ix

How the WorldBecame Flat

One: While I Was Sleeping / 3

Two: The Ten Forces That Flattened the World / 51

Flattener #1.11/9/89

Flattener #2.8/9/95

Flattener #3. Work Flow Software

Flattener #4. Uploading

Flattener #5. Outsourcing

Flattener #6. Offshoring

Flattener #7. Supply-Chaining

Flattener #8. Insourcing

Flattener #9. In-forming

Flattener #10. The Steroids

Three: The Triple Convergence / 200

Four: The Great Sorting Out / 233

America and the Flat World

Five: America and Free Trade / 263

Six:The Untouchables / 278

Seven: The Right Stuff / 308

Eight: The Quiet Crisis / 337

Nine: This Is Not a Test / 374

Developing Countries and the Flat World

Ten: TheVirgin ofGuadalupe / 403

Companies and the Flat World

Eleven: How Companies Cope / 441

You and the Flat World

Twelve: Clobalization of the Local / 477

Thirteen: If It's Not Happening, It's Because

 You're Not Doing It / 489

Fourteen: What Happens When We All Have Dog's Hearing? / 515

Geopolitics and the Flat World

Eifteen:TheUnflatWorld / 533

Sixteen: The Dell Theory of Conflict Prevention / 580

Conclusion: Imagination

Seventeen: 11/9 Versus 9/11 / 607

Acknowledgments / 637

Index / 641