Who is the author and Foreign Affairs columnist for the "New York Times" that wrote both Hot, Flat and Crowded and The World is Flat? Thomas L. Friedman
The World Is Flat The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century is an international best-selling book by Thomas L. Friedman that analyzes globalization, primarily in the early 21st century. The title is a metaphor for viewing the world as a level playing field in terms of commerce, wherein all competitors have an equal opportunity. As the first edition cover illustration indicates, the title also alludes to the perceptual shift required for countries, companies, and individuals to remain competitive in a global market in which historical and geographic divisions are becoming increasingly irrelevant.
Thomas Plate Thomas Gordon Plate (born May 17, 1944) is an American journalist, university professor and op-ed columnist. Over the last 22 years his continuing column on Asia - and now specifically China - has appeared in leading newspapers across the globe, including the "South China Morning Post" in Hong Kong, where he is now a columnist writing fortnightly about China, while based in Los Angeles,"The Straits Times" in Singapore, "The Khaleej Times" out of Dubai, United Arab Emirates, "The Japan Times" in Tokyo, "The Korea Times" in South Korea, "The Jakarta Post" and many others. He was Editor of the Editorial Pages of the Los Angeles Times from 1989 to 1995, and an L.A. Times op-ed columnist until 2000. He is now at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles as its Distinguished Scholar of Asian and Pacific Studies and full-time Clinical Professor. He is vice president and a member of the board of the Pacific Century Institute in Los Angeles. He is founder and editor-in-chief of Asia Media International (asiamedia.lmu.edu), America's only website run by college students devoted entirely to Asia and the U.S.