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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.

Publication Info. New York : Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, [2004]
©2004

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Location Call No. Status
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  306.3094 RIFKIN    Check Shelf
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  306.3 R564E    Check Shelf
Description viii, 434 pages ; 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 alkaline paper
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