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The European Dream

How Europe's Vision of the Future Is Quietly Eclipsing the American Dream

Jeremy Rifkin - Author

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ISBN 9781101111734 | 448 pages | 18 Aug 2005 | Tarcher | 18 - AND UP
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The national bestseller that shows how the American Dream is languishing, surpassed worldwide by a powerful alternative in the lifestyle of the new Europe.

The European Dream Introduction

New Lessons from the Old World
1. The Slow Death of the American Dream
2. The New Land of Opportunity
3. THe Quiet Economic Miracle

The Making of the Modern Age
4. Space, Time, and Modernity
5. Creating the Individual
6. Inventing the Ideolgy of Property
7. Forging Capitalist Markets and Nation-States

The Coming Global Era
8. Network Commerce in a GLobalized Economy
9. The "United States" of Europe
10. Government Without a Center
11. Romancing the Civil Society
12. The Immigrant Dilemma
13. unity in Diversity
14. Waging Peace
15. A Second Enlightenment
16. Universalizing the European Dream

Notes
Bibliography
Index

"The European Dream should be required reading on both sides of the Atlantic."—Andrew Moravcsik, The Financial Times

"At a time when many Americans are feeling increasingly isolated, Rifkin carves out a provocative window  for self-reflection and appraisal."—Negar Akhavi, San Francisco Chronicle


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