whom know Thomas L. Friedman I would encourage you to give me his small podcast piece on the current European attitude on America a listen. I'm driving right now so I can't include the link, but I'll update this post later with full links of his works and recommended readings. Quite honestly, he's a fantastic economist, and seeing how that's my first undergraduate degree, I respect him greatly and normally agree with his findings.
**Update: Here's a link to his book, The World is Flat, on amazon. The podcast is from 10.19.2006 under the Discovery Channel Features (no direct link available) and you should be able to find it by subscribing to their feed. You can also find plenty of information on his own site as well.
