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Author Rifkin, Jeremy.

Title The European dream : how Europe's vision of the future is quietly eclipsing the American dream / Jeremy Rifkin.

Imprint New York : Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, c2004.

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 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  306.3094 R448e 2004    ---  Available
Description viii, 434 p. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction -- NEW LESSONS FROM THE OLD WORLD : The slow death of the American dream -- The new land of opportunity -- The quiet economic miracle -- THE MAKING OF THE MODERN AGE : Space, time, and modernity -- Creating the individual -- Inventing the ideology of property -- Forging capitalist markets and nation-states -- THE COMING GLOBAL ERA : Network commerce in a globalized economy -- The "United States" of Europe -- Government without a center -- Romancing the civil society -- The immigrant dilemma -- Unity in diversity -- Waging peace -- A second enlightenment -- Universalizing the European Union.
Subject Economic development -- Social aspects -- Europe.
Economic development -- Social aspects -- United States.
Quality of life -- Europe.
Quality of life -- United States.
Europe -- Social policy.
Europe -- Economic policy.
United States -- Social policy.
United States -- Economic policy.
ISBN 1585423459 (alk. paper)

 
    
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