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1 online resource (xix, 363 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Acknowledgments; Prologue; Chapter 1:We're Becoming Like Europe; I.A TALE OF TWO EUROPES; Chapter 2: Free Markets, Guilds, and the State; Chapter 3:Toward the European Social Model; Chapter 4:A Very Imperfect Union; II. CONTINTENTS IN CRISIS; Chapter 5:Insiders and Outsiders; Chapter 6:Soft Despotism; Chapter 7:Deficits, Debt, and Deception; Chapter 8:Globalization: The Last Frontier; III. THE CHOICE; Chapter 9:How America Can Havea Non-European Future; Notes; Index. |
| Summary |
We're becoming like Europe." This expression captures many Americans' sense that something has changed in American economic life since the Great Recession's onset in 2008: that an economy once characterized by commitments to economic liberty, rule of law, limited government, and personal responsibility has drifted in a distinctly?European" direction. Americans see, across the Atlantic, European economies faltering under enormous debt; overburdened welfare states; governments controlling close to fifty percent of the economy; high taxation; heavily regulated labor markets; aging p. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Europe -- History -- 21st century.
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Europe. |
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History. |
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21st century |
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Europe -- Economic conditions -- 21st century.
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Economic conditions. |
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Europe -- Economic policy.
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Economic policy. |
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Europe -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
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Social conditions. |
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Europe -- Social policy.
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Social policy. |
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United States -- Economic policy -- 2009-
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United States. |
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2009- |
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United States -- Social policy -- 1993-
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1993- |
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Since 1993 |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Gregg, Samuel. Becoming Europe : Economic Decline, Culture, and How America Can Avoid a European Future. New York : Encounter Books, ©2012 9781594036378 |
| ISBN |
9781594036507 (electronic book) |
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1594036500 (electronic book) |
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1594036373 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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9781594036378 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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