From central planning to markets: 20 years of post-socialist transformation in an Eastern German County.

摘要

Thomas Friedman in his book The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century (2007) develops the thesis that the consequences of the revolution in communication and computers have made the world flat. With ever-lower costs of transportation and communications and information transfers, people in places thousands of miles apart can now communicate with one another, and the connection between production and consumption is no longer place-bound, not even for many services. The world, in that sense, has become flat because now people are able—figuratively—to see each other. But the communications and personal