Beyond our means : why America spends while the world saves / / Sheldon Garon.
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| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 475 p. :; ill. |
| Notes: | "A Princeton University Press e-book"--Cover. |
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Table of Contents:
- The origins of saving in the Western world
- Organizing thrift in the age of nation-states
- America the exceptional
- Japanese traditions of diligence and thrift
- Saving for the new Japan
- Mobilizing for the Great War
- Save now, buy later : World War II and beyond
- "Luxury is the enemy" : Japan in peace and war
- Postwar Japan's national salvation
- Exporting thrift, or the myth of "Asian values"
- "There is money. Spend it" : America since 1945
- Keep on saving? : questions for the twenty-first century.